This may have been answered somewhere in the distant past, but I didn't see it in the most recent few posts.

I use Deepest Sender in the sidebar on Firefox, and I've told Firefox to block all images that come from a LiveJournal server generally, so until recently Deepest Sender just sat there being all nice and text-based. Now, though, it picks up my user icon despite the fact that Firefox should be blocking LiveJournal images.

What I'd really like to see is an option not to show my default icon in Deepest Sender at all. Come to think of it, I'd like the option not to see my username either. I use DS for a single livejournal account and nothing else; I know what my username and icon look like, and I'd really just rather have a nice DS text editor in the sidebar with no frills.

Is that possible? For now, I've just told LiveJournal not to use a default icon (not the greatest solution, but the best for me at the moment) and I'm just living with my giant, bold, unnecessary username sitting there.

Thanks all.

Hi.
I think it would be nice to have an editable list of locations which i can fill up and then just choose from this list rather than typing it each time. Or auto-complete function. Will be useful IMHO. What do you think?

So, is anyone else finding that the spell checker in FF3 will shut itself off randomly, and for no good reason?  I find this happens in Gmail a lot, and also in various other places where I'm entering text.  Suddenly, the red underlined text won't be underlined, despite something being spelled wrong. 

I don't care about spell check that much, but this is kind of annoying.  I see it on mac and PC, and I can't seem to find a pattern.  it's happening no matter what plugins are installed or not. 

Not sure if anyone else is seeing this?

is there a way to disable FF from automatically resizing images that are larger than the browser window?

Whenever I view a video through an embedded flash player, like hulu or youtube, I will lose sound playback if I touch the progress bar at all. Sometimes it will not start at all. I have reinstalled flash to no avail. Any ideas as to what could be causing this?

WinXp, FF3

Any help greatly appreciated.

Love your product, but I'm having a problem.  When I attempt to post to my blogger site via Firefox 3.0, Iget this error message: "Error sending post: Must specify either a content or summary element for a post"

I have no idea what a content or summary elements are.  No post shows up on my blogger site.

What do I do?

Many thanks.

~Dana Garrett

So today, ICANN unanimously approved a set of measures that are meant to liberalize the naming and ownership of domain names, such as .com and .org.

However, there have been quite a few previous initiatives which aimed for a liberalization of domain naming since the late 90's. OpenNIC was one initiative, and it is cited on a WikiFur article because of the .fur domain name which never took off as a major alternative domain name due to the lack of recognition of OpenNIC domain names by major ISPs.

Does this mean that the alternative domain names pushed by OpenNIC and New.net can gain recognition if enough financial promotion comes their way?

FF3 - I see a check box in the Tools>Options>Advanced that lets me turn "automatic redirect" or reload warnings on or off, but is there a way to leave it on and allow certain sites, like auto refresh on ESPN's scoreboard pages?

There are two categories on Wikipedia: Embedded Linux (with its own article) and Mobile Linux (without its own article, don't know if it'll be redundant to create one).

I'm confused about this because Mobile Linux (which is meant to go onto "mobile", "traveling" devices such as smartphones, PDAs/"palmtops" and PMPs) is generally assumed as being a specific form of Embedded Linux (which goes on both mobile and stationary devices, such as networking hubs, robots and non-GUI machinery).

However, you also have the "Netbook", "MID" and "tablet PC" Linux distributions that are coming out. These are meant to be "mobile", in both the laptop sense and the phone sense, since you can carry such smaller "-tops" in a small bag, a purse, or other place where you can often find a mobile phone located (except for the pocket....apparently, they won't get to that point until multitouch "-tops" will replace the "-book"'s keyboard, and that will take years to put out to market).

Furthermore, while this smaller type of "-top" may (like the MacBook Air) or may not lack an optical drive, it will also have a way to install an operating system from some physical device, whether it is through a wireless optical drive that syncs to the "-top" or through a USB flash drive stick that can be stuck into a port on the side of the "-top". Mobile Linux devices - at least the smartphones - don't have this option, as don't other smartphones with different operating systems installed, although Linux has been installed (through various jerry-rigged ways, onto PMPs and PDAs which aren't locked into a carrier).

So where does the mobile Embedded with no user-software flexibility end and the mobile Netbook/MID with user-installable OS and software begin?

If the smaller luggable laptops are becoming as small and compact as the Mobile Embedded devices, then should the Netbooks and their operating systems be included into the "Mobile Linux" Category, alongside the smartphones, PDAs and PMPs?

(I also notice that with the current hoopla being given to Linux-based smartphones and Linux-based subnotebooks, one doesn't hear that much about Linux PDAs or Linux PMPs, although that may only be because of the respective lack of native Linux support for PDA-compatible wireless and PMP-compatible codecs that won't wear down batteries. Oh well.)

Will there be a "FasterFox" add-on that works with Firefox 3.0

The 'user' button in Deepest Sender on my XP/Firefox 2/DS box used to create a user link in a post just fine. That appears to be broken. What should look like:

eiredrake

and have code like this:

<lj user="eiredrake">

is coming out like this:

eiredrake

Because the code it's putting in the post looks like this:
<span class="undefined">eiredrake</span>

Not really a huge issue or a deal breaker. Anyone else having this problem?

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One is minor and the other is a right pain in the keister.

At work, I use XP Sp3 and on my laptop I use Vista. In both locations I am using Firefox's 3.0 release ( though I have seen both in the last release as well). The odd thing is that neither of these problems are occuring with Vista, Firefox 3 and the newest DS. But on XP with the same version of firefox and DS I see a couple of issues.

The minor problem is that for some reason, there are times when I open a brand new edit window to write a brand new post (ie: not editing a previous post ) that no matter what DS will not let me click on the Subject field box. I don't know if it's just because it refuses to take focus or if it's merely not painting the karet so I can tell it's selected but I do know that when this happens typing does not put any text in the subject at all. I can however, select the main content box, and then tab around until the tab order ends up at the Subject box and go from there.

The other issue is significantly more aggravating. As I said in another post  I do a lot of political posting and as such I use the L Embed features a lot with different types of media. The regular LJ WYSIWYG editor has a button to pop up a dialog so that you can paste the object embed code from, for example, youtube and it will automatically put the embed tags around as needed. The Youtube clip shows up fine and plays.

However DS doesn't have a button, so the only option is to either put in the LJ embed tags yourself or to drop onto the Source tab and paste the object embed code in there. However, I have seen on XP in both versions of Firefox and DS that after the post is saved all that appears in LJ is a static box the size of the original imbed that can't be clicked on and doesn't play. When looking at the source in the HTML view of the LJ editor, the embed code has suddenly become a series of DIV tags.

For example the embed code here:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZMteezqDlE&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZMteezqDlE&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Would look like this in LJ:
<lj-embed id="268">
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MeSSwKffj9o&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MeSSwKffj9o&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
</lj-embed>

But comes out like this after using DS:
<div title="http://www.youtube.com/v/oI5EY5kqiBU&amp;hl=en" style="border: 1px solid rgb(223, 223, 223); background: transparent url(chrome://flashblock/content/flash.png) no-repeat scroll center center; overflow: hidden; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; min-width: 32px ! important; min-height: 32px ! important; width: 425px; height: 344px; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; -moz-box-sizing: border-box;"></div>

In order to fix this, you need to edit the post, yank out the DIV'd embed code and replace it in the LJ editor with fresh embed object code from youtube and then save the post again. This takes a lot of extra time to do, especially in a post where I am already quoting a lot of other articles so I would use DS's functionality. It's not a deal breaker or anything. It's not like i'm going to stop using DS. But it would be nice if there was a work around for this or if someone could either fix it so DS doesn't munge up the embed code or to put a toolbar button in to handle it right.

To the Devs, thanks for all your hard work so far.

MEND is a militant group based and operating primarily in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. It most recently declared a ceasefire in its ongoing battle against the Nigerian government that begins on Tuesday at midnight GMT.

It is most well known for its acts of militant sabotage against the petroleum industry (due primarily to the federal government's past and present outrages in the region and the petroleum industry's providing of the Nigerian feds with the cash to do such outrages), as well as its regularly-updated cache of expatriate employee hostages who are all scared shitless before being let go unharmed.

But what makes MEND particularly interesting among other current militant rebel groups in the Third World is the organization's relationship with the media. Every time that it executes an attack on an oil pipeline, MEND makes sure to send a pseudonymous email to Reuters to tell of their intent.

Probably the most famous example of MEND's relationship with the media is the 2006 excursion of CNN's (former) correspondent Jeff Koinange to the hideout of MEND in the Delta:



This report put both Koinange and CNN in hot water with the feds (namely the government information minister, Frank Nweke, Jr.), who claimed that the report was staged. No doubt that Manila was a bit pissed by this display of Filipino hostages as well.

Also, MEND is known for never showing their faces on camera and always brandishing a weapon of some sort, and, as you probably saw in the video, either dancing (with guns) or riding shotgun on speedboats (with guns).

For the record, I laughed at the video when I saw it just now (it seemed a bit more serious back when I first saw it).

But it is funny, how an anti-government, anti-industrial rebel group has this much access to Western media outlets without ever taking off their masks and keeping a corrupt government and its even more corrupt military on its toes.

The theme or motive of MEND's fight against the petroleum industry also comes at a time that the Western media has turned into a battleground between pro- and anti-petroleum constituents and PR agencies due to the global warming meme. In fact, it couldn't have come at a better time to advance an anti-fossil fuel agenda both in the Third World and the First.

I don't sympathize with MEND's usage of violence and hostage-taking issues, by the way; neither do I sympathize with the Nigerian government or petroleum industry. It just seems a bit....weird.

The presidential runoff on Friday is... off.

At least the MDC has the majority in parliament to use against Mugabe and ZANU-PF, legally making him a lame duck. But still...not even a Kenyan-style GNU to make dictatorship life a bit harder for Mugabe.

Meanwhile, African nationalism is a wonderful thing.

So does this mean that Mugabe gets to rule for another decade and keep Zimbabwe in a seemingly-perpetual struggle against perceived British colonialism until the Dear Leader dies?

Maybe its clear that there are quite a few Zimbabweans who are content with an economically-interdependent, multiracial nation-state and do not prefer a military solution to economic or political problems?

I personally object to any use of militant means to gain or maintain power. The post about how the AU should pull either an Anjouan or Togo on Zimbabwe in the case of Tsvangirai winning the run-off without Mugabe budging from his presidential residence, and is not in favor of a military solution to the turmoil caused primarily by Mugabe's military and ZANU-PF militia.

I've objected against the militant rebel coup against Aristide in 2004 (I didn't say anything about Aristide's militant usage of police against militant opposition and those civilians who happened to sympathize with such militancy), I've objected to the use of the U.S. military in the overthrow of the Hawaiian government and maintenance of the same rule in the archipelago to this day (although it took place in 1893), and I object to the usage of the military and militant, violent means by the Mugabe government to maintain his rule in the country. I've never seriously countenanced the post-9/11 wars of the U.S., and I objected to how the military was being used to settle an old score between the U.S. and some country in the other large supercontinent of the world that most folks on this continent can't find on a map.

I'm fairly anti-military in my stance, at least because I view the military (particularly the political use of violent tactics) as a sign that the entity which uses such means is only losing the argument, or losing control of the argument. Furthermore, if an entity which uses the military or militant institutions (insurrectionist or state-sanctioned) to gain control of the relevant institutions does gain control of such institutions (this includes the ZANU-PF, Afewerki's ascension to power in Eritrea post-independence, the military juntas of Latin America and Caribbean during the Cold War, or even the Communist guerrilas who gained power in Eastern Europe and formed more than a few satellites around the Soviet Union), it only gives the new ex-rebel governors of the nation-state an incentive to use force against those who are less militarily-abled in order to make short order of an argument or conflict between the entities represented by or sponsoring of the rival militancies (or between the ruling militancy and a significant non-militant institution).

Finally, the people suffer in some fashion. Economies go down the toilet, social services decline in quality, civil freedoms are violated, people die, precedents for authoritarianism are ensured for the foreseeable future, rinse and repeat.

It doesn't matter who or which institution engages in militancy first: things just happen to go wrong for the future generations.

Of course, I can be a bit of a hypocrite to have such a stance when I'm only a few stone's throws away from one of the larger Air Force bases in the state of Georgia; also, I AM a bit of a hypocrite since I'm still a beneficiary from my father's 23-year military service (and I have TRICARE, a military health insurance service, when most people in the U.S. can't afford the decent health care that I and my mother, among others in my immiediate family, can take for granted for as long as we have periodically-updated military IDs for base and AMWR access).

But I don't intend to serve in the military.

I've never been good with authority figures getting in my face to make a point "crystal-clear" to me. Nor do I feel comfortable with the idea of going to a country where others who dwell by the gun in the same way that any military does desire to direct their guns to my head or other body part.

Nor do I feel like returning the favor to others who are percieved as "our" enemies.

Let me say right now that I absolutely love Deepest Sender. It is almost as cool as sliced bread. I do a lot of political posts and the very fact that I can select text in an article and immediately open an LJ window is a serious serious serious time saver. It does 85% of what I used to do manually , thus allowing me to focus on the content of my post rather than worrying about if I copy/pasted the right text and if I got the URL right. I tend to do a lot of political posting and as such I end up quoting things quite a bit. After each quote I make my own comments, which need to stand out from the quoted text in an obvious way. Normally I just back-indent, which helps a bit I suppose but isn't really as obvious as I'd like.

That being said I was wondering if it were possible to have a toolbar icon to change the background color of a text block in order to highlight it.

For example, consider this text from an article:

You won’t love Mike Myers’ ‘Guru’ > SundayPaper.com > The Sunday Paper :: All you need to know.:

Some Hindus have expressed fears that “The Love Guru” would mock their spirituality and culture, but they come off no worse than human beings in general. The movie, which stretches the plot with musical numbers, runs only runs 87 minutes, but seems twice that long: Who would have thought they could cram so many jokes about male genitalia into an hour and a half? The obsessive crudeness goes beyond juvenile to infantile.

Now, here we have my comments. I chose this article completely at random from Google. I don't really like Meyers for anything past his Wayne's World stuff. I didn't really like any of his Austin Powers schick but that's another issue. The thing is that

If it could look something like this:
You won’t love Mike Myers’ ‘Guru’ > SundayPaper.com > The Sunday Paper :: All you need to know.:

Some Hindus have expressed fears that “The Love Guru” would mock their spirituality and culture, but they come off no worse than human beings in general. The movie, which stretches the plot with musical numbers, runs only runs 87 minutes, but seems twice that long: Who would have thought they could cram so many jokes about male genitalia into an hour and a half? The obsessive crudeness goes beyond juvenile to infantile.

Not only would it look a bit more like other blogs, but in making postings with a lot of quotes from articles it would help to make the text stand out a bit more.

Is this possible? I know you can set the color of the text. In this particular instance I had to put the block into a table to do it.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

i use mozilla firefox but just recently when pictures don't load there's this annoying red dot instead of a red X in place of where the picture is, like this:


how can i get it back to the way it was before?

Does Quicktime work with Firefox 3? I am trying a site that needs quicktime, and I keep getting an error.