Hi pals,

I am not too sure if any of you here are developers for Mozilla Firefox, but I would like to find out why:

a. I cannot find Firefox and Thunderbird in Synaptic?

b. Firefox did not come preconfigured with the most common plug-ins, such as Flash, Java, mPlayer etc.?

c. Firefox did not come preconfigured with the GO, New Tab, New Window, History, Bookmarks and Download icons?

These would be basic functions which are used by the majority of people... so hope someone can enlighten me! (Or if there are no good reasons, then maybe one of you Firefox developers can consider implementing my suggestions?)

Thanks!!!

Rykel
Singapore

questions like these would probably be more easier answered in the firefox fourms...
http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4

but just to take a stab at it, you have to realize these people take there time
out to deliver a product such as firefox to you, and many others, including myself
free of charge, and the simplicity of adding these features is nothing short of easy...

i think what i am trying to get across is that you should take the product as is
as it is basically given to you, and these people aren't required to supply these things.
they want to give you a great browser, in which they do, and with how easy
it is to add these features, i personally wouldnt' be giving them a hard time, not saying
thats what your trying to do, but i think you get what i am trying to say.

they already have a higher end browser called mozilla, that comes with most if not all
of the things you are asking for ... firefox is just a stripped down version basically ...

i don't know how else to explain my point of view on this topic other than what i said
and that you'll probably get more direct answers and more answers directly through
the firefox fourms ...

as of synaptic, that is dependant on the sources your using .. personally i don't use
synaptic cause i use slackware, so i am not sure exactly why you can't find it
through any of your synaptic resources, but i can tell you that it has nothing to do with
the firefox people on why you can't get it through synaptic.

cheers!

harloe drozz,

really, thanks and many thanks for the reply u gave...

actually, i am VERY THANKFUL for the people who worked on Mozilla, and i have absolutely no intention to mean tat the developers are "obliged" to give us any features...

if i am into programming, i would love to contribute to the source code too... but alas, i look at lines of code and get freaked out...

now, i come from an angle where i am currently setting firefox and thunderbird for any PC tat comes into my sight, and i am unofficially "evangelising" for the programs.

i also report bugs, solutions and help others who may face problems in forums etc. so tat e community can benefit, altho' i must say tat i hardly can find any bugs! (versas the table-banging frustrations i had before with IE and opera)

therefore, e features i ask abt is meant to help more ppl adopt mozilla, and if tis is e best i can contribute, ie. suggesting to developers on e features tat are frequently used while getting more users, so tat it is worthwhile for contributors to continue improving e software, tis is wat i will continue doing!

it's like me playing my small part in e grand picture.

hope tat helps, and cheers!!



regards,

rykel
singapore

p/s. did u say tat u are also one of the developers working on mozilla? here's a BIG, BIG "THANK YOU!!"

Is there anyway that when I click the address bar that the url is highlighted with one click ( like in windows )?

Thanks

Press ctrl + L instead . F6 will also do

I see from your summary on the left that you're running Lindows and Xandros. If you're pointing your /etc/apt/sources.list to Debian, then you'd have to point to at least the "testing" or "unstable" tree for firefox or thunderbird to show up in the list. (BTW, you could always install just the .deb with dpkg, barring any dependancy problems....). If you don't have these sources listed, then you're pointing to a place where the Debian volunteer(s) who have taken Mozilla's source code and packaged it nicely for us. If you aren't using the testing or unstable Debian sources already, I'd be a bit hesitant of doing it, as you'll be faced with a big upgrade, likely, and it'll probably screw up anything that your distros have done on their own.

Its much easier to just get the .tar.gz from the mozilla site and unpack it somewhere nice. The directory is ready as soon as its unpacked. If you want to easily run it by typing something like "firefox", just create a symbolic link to the executable in /usr/bin. for example, if you unpacked it to your home directory, you could or whatever. That's actually the easiest so far.

BTW, has anyone tried Opera 7.5 yet? Seems quite zippy.