Comments on: No Surprise

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:27:03 +0000

I can find nothing in your posts that would kick them into moderation. Normally it is a problem with the e-mail address, but if there were, your Gravatar wouldn’t appear, and it does.

You successfully posted two in a row without getting kicked into moderation, so maybe the problem was somehow fixed by the change I made so Hipparchia could post ICHC pictures in comments.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:41:28 +0000

I’m not surprised that your blog is picking on me. If you’ve ever watched ‘Red Dwarf’, you’d know that my namesake was much put upon! We are used to it and just go on. It’s the price we pay. *sigh*

😉 LOL

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:50:50 +0000

I blame it on all the rain around Bellevue.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:30:52 +0000

oh now there’s a happy thought — computers no longer have bugs, they have cockroaches.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:55:04 +0000

First off, the comments moderation is picking on you, and you alone. It almost seems to be every second post. I’m investigating the problem and believe it may have something to do with the number of tags you use in comment formatting, which shouldn’t make any difference, but might if the code is sloppy when checking for links.

I notice that 3.0.5 is downloading this morning, but I don’t have it yet. I also need to hack a file from the current blogging upgrade, as it overwrote a previous hack about tags allowed in comments, so that may be source of your problem, too.

Every time a bug is squashed it seems like two more emerge.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:36:04 +0000

Your blog hates me. *sigh* I don’t care. 😉 LOL

It Seems Firefox v3.0.5 has just been released.

Firefox 3.0.5 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.4

* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.
* Official releases for the Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, and Latvian languages are now available.
* Replaced the End-User License Agreement with a new “Know Your Rights” info bar on initial install.
* When installing multiple signed XPIs simultaneously, previous versions of Firefox would fail.
* Fixed several issues found in the accessibility implementation.
* Added the ability to send OS-specific system notes in the crash reporter.

And the performance optimized SSE & SSE2 builds should be available here *any day now* 😉

Binary Turf: Blazing Fast – Firefox Optimized Distributions

OK. Let’s see if this post ends up in moderation too! :p

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:16:53 +0000

Ha! Right… 😉

PS: For anyone who wants to have a bit of fun in Firefox… Type (or copy/paste) the following into the address bar:
about:robots

(Appropriate now that the remake of the great classic “The Day The Earth Stood Still” is out. anyone seen it BTW? Any good? 🙂

Ahem… And:
about:mozilla

There used to be another fun one called about:kitchensink, but the Mozilla people seem to lose their sense of humor and made it so it only works with an extension installed, which no longer works anyway with vers > 3.0a1 *sigh* You can see a pic here though:

The Kitchen Sink Even though it was an ASCII art image, you could play with the taps and things would happen. 😉 LOL

This will show you how the various ff caches are configured, with links to view the contents if you want to:
about:cache

This will give you the full build identifier and other info about your ff build (useful mainly for developers obviously)
about:

And you can use this for even more detailed build info:
about:buildconfig

If you ever wondered how many people worked on ff… (if you haven’t seen this… you might be amazed!)
about:credits

There are some others, and others that once worked no longer do. 🙂 I’m sure some of you already know these, but for the others… have fun! 😀

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:35:16 +0000

They do seem to be getting worse and not better. If they would disentangle the damn thing from the rest of the world and make it a truly stand-alone application their market share would drop like a rock.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:06:09 +0000

Oops! meant to mention... Badtux & Bryan, you can change where the ff cache is located and change several cache setting. Mozilla even state that a RAM disk is good for a cache if to want security and performance. :) This can be done by using: about:config Cache settings that can be changed include:

Accessibility.disablecache Browser.cache.check doc frequency Browser.cache.disk cache ssl Browser.cache.disk.capacity Browser.cache.disk.enable Browser.cache.disk.parent directory Browser.cache.memory.capacity Browser.cache.memory.enable Browser.cache.offline.capacity Browser.cache.offline.enable

Browser.cache.disk.parent directory Category:Preferences About:config entries Cheers! :)

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:57:13 +0000

Ohh… what a big surprise. *yawn* LOL

I only ever use IE for testing, and only when absolutely necesary. I have not needed it to brows any sites for a couple years now. My main browsers are Firefox (actually, the much faster optimized Minefield – which curiously, is the actual name of the main mozilla browser development line. Firefox is just a dev branch name.) 🙂 And Opera 9.61.

If you really want to have a laugh about M$ security (that is truly an oxymoron), Try an IE 8 alpha! LOL