For the complete instructions for upgrading to 1.0.1, read Asa's "upgrading from firefox 1.0 to firefox 1.0.1", an excellent, very, very detailed post on his blog. It looks scary when you first see his post, but it's long & detailed because he purposely went through every single itty bitty step. Don't freak. Just read it and follow along. There is no way you can screw up with these instructions. Best of all, he covers Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Very cool. Now go upgrade!

TUAWDetailed instructions for upgrading to Firefox 1.0.1 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:05:59 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

(Of course, volunteers can still keep Mozilla going, and it looks like folks are trying to do just that. More news as it develops.)

TUAWNo more Mozilla 1.8; in fact, no more Mozilla. Just Firefox. originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:42:39 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

TUAWReally nice Flash-based OpenOffice.org tutorials - for 1.1 AND 2.0 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:41:39 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Here's my reply:

Continue reading "Why isn't BitTorrent faster?", he asked.

TUAW"Why isn't BitTorrent faster?", he asked. originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:42:46 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• SSH Host Key Protection
• SSH User identities
• SSH and ssh-agent

TUAWA great series on SSH originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:51:07 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Ext2 isn't a bad choice, since it's supported under Mac OS X, Linux (duh), and even Windows, to some degree.

Mac OS X - Ext2fsx

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/

Windows - Explore2fs

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

Mac OS X & Linux can read & write Ext2; Windows, however, can only read. However, with all OS's you get support for large partitions and large file sizes, which is great. Too bad you don't get journaling ...

TUAWSharing a file system among Linux, Mac OS, and Windows originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:35:33 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

OK - so how do you get it? Head over to the Release Notes and follow the instructions. And fer gosh sakes, read the frickin' Release Notes, OK? There's some important stuff in there, like DON'T INSTALL THE NEW FIREFOX OVER AN OLD FIREFOX. There. I capitalized it so you'd see it.

(For those of you who use BitTorrent, head to the Firefox 1.0.1 Torrents page and grab those torrents! But read the Release Notes anyway, ';k?)

Go get it!

(Or, if you're like me and you use Debian, the one true Linux&tm;, wait ';til it's in the APT repositories)

TUAWFirefox 1.0.1 released! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:55:50 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

TUAWReason #5490 that LAMP rocks and Windows+IIS sucks originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:48:40 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

<Robert's email>

I was able to successfully kill my Mac last night with the following script [Scott: remove the blank lines from the script; this blog's wysiwyg keeps inserting them]:

perl -le '


   @foo=qw(hello) ;


   for (my $i ; $i<100 ; $i++) {


     push(@foo, @foo) || die "$i -- no more\n" ;


     print "$i" ;


   } ;


   print "size is $#foo" ;


'

By killed I mean that without warning the Mac just turned off. When I powered on, it took a long time (probably doing an fsck) and then the time was set to January 1970. So, this was the hardest crash I have ever seen on a Unix box.

So I figured this script would be a good test for ulimit (bash, ksh ; limit in tcsh, csh). But no matter what setting I used for the various ulimit options, the script kept running, sucking up more and more RAM, until I manually stopped it with a Ctrl-C.

I'm curious to know if the above script kills anyone else's machines and if setting ulimit/limit options prevents it?

</Robert's email>

Jon, another member of the CWE-LUG list, is a big FreeBSD user, and he reported that the script did nothing on his FreeBSD box. It ran for 10 seconds or so & things slowed down, but then a warning appeared in the terminal - "Out of memory during request for 1012 bytes, total sbrk() is 535257088 bytes" - and things resumed as normal! On OpenBSD, the script ran for 4 seconds, maybe, and then gave an "Out of Memory" error, but there was no slowdown in performance.

What about the rest of you out there? Try it - ON A NON-PRODUCTION MACHINE!!! - & let us know!

TUAWKilling a Mac OS X machine originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:45:15 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

IE's market share is dropping, dropping, dropping, & guess who's taking its place? Firefox.

Microsoft's IE continues to be seen as insecure and buggy, but guess what browser has a much better security record? Firefox.

Guess which browser has people asking why it's so gosh darn "compelling"? Firefox. (Note: ignore the first link in the referenced piece - it's an incredibly stupid cartoon.)

What browser has folks in India, Boston, & Britain talking? Firefox.

Which piece of software has reignited the browser wars, which everyone, including Microsoft, thought were over? Firefox.

What's getting really super-knowledgable IT pundits to write about it? Firefox.

Which browser's popularity is enabling developers to make money supporting it & writing addons for it? Firefox.

What software is now at the vanguard of the FLOSS (Free, Libre, Open Source Software) movement?

Heck, if you don't know that answer to that one by now, you just ain't been paying attention.

TUAWFirefox is THE success story in tech right now originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:30:15 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• Terra Soft's FTP site
• FTP mirrors
• BitTorrent

It's gonna be 4 ISOs: 3 around 630MB each, & 1 that's only about 162MB. Have fun!

TUAWYellow Dog Linux 4.0 ISOs available! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:15:23 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The GIMP Gets Ready for 2.2

"As promised, this time it didn't take another 3 years for a new stable GIMP version to be released. 8 months after GIMP 2.0 hit the road, GIMP 2.2 is almost done. The GIMP developers released 2.2-pre2 today and unless any major problems show up, the GIMP 2.2.0 release is going to follow later this month. The GIMP Wiki has a comprehensive list of new features in GIMP 2.2 and here are some screenshots of the development version."

(Scott's note: follow this links in the Slashdot piece to find out those new features & see screenshots.)

GIMP 2.2

A list of some new features you can expect in the next release of the GIMP, with particular focus on the new GIMP Animation Plug-in, which allows you to edit movies. Wheee!

Script-fu Tutorial

(Scott's note: Script-Fu is a programming language for the GIMP that allows you to script actions.)

"This is a short tutorial in Script-Fu programming. I'll try to give a short intro into the world of Script-Fu and explain how basic things works. We will create a complete script-fu step-by-step. The goal is to have a Script-Fu, which produces a metal style text. I assume, that the reader has a basic knowlege of Scheme, which is the programming language that is used in Script-Fu."

(Scott's note: Note that this tutorial was written for GIMP 1.1.24, which is old, but it may still be useful. Also note that Tiny-fu is eventually going to replace Script-Fu.)

Gimp-Python

"Gimp-Python is a package that allows people to write plug-ins for The Gimp in the Python programming language rather than Script-Fu (Scheme), Perl, Tcl or C."

(Scott's note: yes, it appears that this is also for GIMP 1, but I think it still works.)

Other GIMP posts:

• Web site companion to the book Essential GIMP for Web Professionals
• Super-short intro to the GIMP

TUAWGIMP goodness originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:02:45 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Make Firefox look more OS X-y with Firefoxy

From Blogzilla: "Making Firefox widgets Apple-icious just got easier, thanks to Amake. His utility, Firefoxy, applies Kevin Gerich's Pretty Widgets using drag-and-drop."

Firefox 1.0 to Gain More Mac OS X Features

"On the Mac side of things, Goodger said Firefox 1.0 uses Apple's QuickDraw technology to draw to the screen, while the Windows version uses GDI. However, he said the next big move for the Mac version of Firefox would be away from QuickDraw." (They're moving to Quartz, btw.)

And by the way - just how successful has our favorite browser been since it's release? Well, according to folks at the Mozilla Foundation, it was downloaded 1,000,000 times on the day it was released. Hoohah!

TUAWFirefox & Mac OS X originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:31:02 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

eWeek

These guys went hog-freakin'-wild with the Firefox coverage. Jeeminy!

Mozilla Launches Firefox 1.0

Just the facts, ma'am.

Firefox 1.0 Lives Up to Hype

The review. Short summary: he loves it! "[T]he hype is well-deserved. During tests, we found Firefox 1.0 to be extremely intuitive, with probably the most minimal learning curve imaginable. In addition, the Linux and Mac OS X versions of Firefox are functionally identical to those on Windows, making Firefox an excellent cross-platform solution."

Firefox Flaws Flagged, Fixed

"According to information released by Mozilla, multiple security holes have been plugged in all beta versions of Firefox to correct flaws that could lead to security bypass, exposure of sensitive data, privilege escalation and DoS (denial of service) attacks."

Firefox and Beyond: Mozilla President Browses the Future

A lengthy interview with the Mozilla Foundation's president. Definitely worth reading.

Mozilla: No Google Browser in the Works

They're not. So quit asking, k?

CNET News.com

And the winner for most articles goes to ... CNET! One page links to all the articles provided by News.com - tks, CNET!

Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0

"After 19 months of development, two name changes and more than 8 million downloads of its preview release, the Firefox browser is finally turning 1.0."

Google stars in Firefox's new browser

I was surprised by this myself - Google is now the default home page in Firefox!

Review of Firefox 1.0

"Move over, Internet Explorer. Feature-studded and secure Mozilla Firefox 1.0 is a safer, better choice for Internet browsing. 8.0 out of 10"

Firefox maps its next moves

"The coals are still hot from Tuesday morning's Firefox 1.0 release, but the Mozilla Foundation is already cooking up its next moves to challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dominance."

Firefox 1.0 fans clog Mozilla site

I noticed this too - you couldn't get the Firefox Extensions page to load for days after Firefox came out.

Microsoft getting nervous about Firefox?

"Has Firefox reignited the browser war? CNET News.com has incontrovertible evidence that Microsoft is once again on war footing. The proof? After years of neglecting Internet Explorer, killing its standalone version and satisfying reporters' requests for interviews with terse, prepared statements, Microsoft representatives on Monday took the unusual step of placing an unsolicited call to News.com in anticipation of the Firefox 1.0 release."

Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE

"Just days after the launch of open-source browser Firefox 1.0, Microsoft executives defended Internet Explorer, saying it is no less secure than any other browser and doesn't lack any important features." This was also discussed on Slashdot.

British

Our friends across the pond have some good stuff to say about Firefox.

The Guardian: "Hunting with Firefox"

"Firefox deserves to succeed, but even if it does not it will have highlighted the astonishing success of open source, well known inside the web community but not outside. Among other services, it has its own operating system (Linux), an acclaimed alternative to Microsoft Office (OpenOffice), and its own encyclopedia (Wikipedia) with a million entries. The open source movement has become one of globalisation's unexpected treasures."

BBC News: "Firefox browser takes on Microsoft"

"Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a serious rival in the long-awaited Firefox 1.0 web browser, which has just been released."

vnunet: "Mozilla Firefox 1.0"

"The best browser around. Period." (Scott: it don't get much more succint, do it?)

International

Firefox isn't just for Americans (or Brits) - it's a worldwide phenomenon.

More International Media Reports on Mozilla Firefox 1.0

Speak Portugeuse, German, or French? Wanna find out what folks in Brazil, Germany, or France are hearing about Firefox? Then check this one out. (For more from France, also see FireFox, le petit panda qui veut grignoter Explorer)

Aljazeera.Net

The English language web site of the Arab TV station reports that "Mozilla's Firefox renews browser war"

Australia: "Open-source browser set for challenge"

"A new front has been opened in the long-dormant browser war, with an open-source program called Firefox aiming to challenge Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer. But Microsoft Australia says there is no threat and Internet Explorer users do not want features that Firefox offers."

Newswires

Newspapers & other publications often just take AP & other pieces & just run them. In Firefox's case, that's cool, 'cause the wire services have good things to say about it.

AP: "Firefox Browser Alternative to Microsoft"

"Web surfing has belonged almost exclusively to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Internet Explorer ever since it buried Netscape's pioneering browser. That doesn't seem to have bothered the developers of the Mozilla Firefox, a feisty new kid on the block that's worth a serious look."

Reuters: "Firefox Browser, a Microsoft Rival, Fully Released"

"'Open source projects have a much higher standard,' said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. 'It's the engineers that actually build the software that label it as done.'"

American technology publications

The techies weighs in.

Wired: "Firefox 1.0 Makes Flashy Debut"

"A decade ago, geeks greeted the release of Netscape's new web browser with great anticipation. A similar sense of expectation surrounded each subsequent version of Netscape Navigator and, to a much lesser extent, updates to Microsoft's upstart Internet Explorer. All that excitement came to an end three or four years ago, when Microsoft seemed to have won the so-called browser wars and promptly stopped adding new features to IE. But it was déjà vu all over again Tuesday, complete with swamped servers and abused refresh keys, with the release of Firefox 1.0. "

Linux Today: "Quick Look: Firefox 1.0 is End Users' Dream Machine"

"... this is one heavy-duty browser. And coupled with some excellent extensions, this is by far the best browser I have ever used. But while everybody says that, I wanted to highlight an aspect of Firefox that I don't think many have touched upon. I'm talking about the installer. This installer is simply one of the best installation routines I have seen on any platform. It's fast, it's robust, and by golly it gets the job done right."

TechTarget: "Firefox's 'Peter Parker' complex"

"In both the films and the comics, Spiderman's alter-ego Peter Parker was given some advice from his uncle: 'With great power comes great responsibility.' With more than 8 million downloads recorded for its preview version alone, an irrefutable trend exists with the Web browser Firefox, Mozilla Foundation's most popular creation: it's on fire."

PC World: "Mozilla Mulls Desktop Search Features for Firefox Browser"

"Having launched the much-awaited version 1.0 of the Firefox browser on Tuesday, the Mozilla Foundation is busy planning future enhancements to the open-source product, including the possibility of integrating it with a variety of desktop search tools. The foundation also wants to place Firefox in PCs through original equipment manufacturer (OEM) deals with PC hardware vendors and to continue to sharpen the product's pop-up ad-blocking technology." (Slashdot also discusses this article.)

Slashdot: "Firefox 1.0 Released"

1109 comments ... & counting.

Mainstream American media

The non-tech press has things to say to - & Mom & Pop will probably read these articles!

CNN: "New browser to challenge Microsoft"

"Microsoft's dominance of the Web browser market faces a fresh challenge on Tuesday with the release of the final version of Mozilla's Firefox browser."

L.A. Times: "Goliath's Newest David"

"Six years after Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer defeated Netscape Navigator in the signature fight of the online age, a direct descendant of the pioneering Web browser is exacting a small measure of revenge."

ClickZ: "Crazy Like a Firefox"

The Firefox community from a professional marketer's perspective: "Call it open-source marketing, or viral/buzz/word-of-mouth/community/advocacy/guerilla marketing. Some dub it 'consumer control,' the theme of this week's AD:TECH. Whatever you call it, and as marketers blah-blah-blah about it, it's out there happening ? and the results are stunning. Firefox really is a kick-ass browser." I love that woman!

Whew! Yes, this is my only post for today - this post has taken hours!

TUAWThe media covers Firefox; or, links to collections of links originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Go get it!

TUAWFirefox 1.0 released! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:44:43 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Can Mozilla Beat Godzilla?

"An increasing number of individuals, businesses and governments are beginning to see the advantage of open source software. ... I have no idea whether Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates stays up at night worrying about his empire but, if he does, he may very well be losing sleep over the Mozilla Foundation."

Mozilla vs. Microsoft

"Although increasing defection from Internet Explorer isn't a reason for Microsoft shareholders to panic, it does represent a slow slippage in users' trust. Meanwhile, as the hacker community's favorite foe, Microsoft has got its work cut out for it as far as making users feel secure again - and eventually, that could be a threat to the top line."

I Love Firefox But Can't Escape Explorer

"If I want to use the online banking services, I have to use IE. Why? No good reason I can fathom. Heaven knows IE isn't more secure than Firefox (oh, were it so!). I suspect they simply didn't bother to check other browsers when they built their site. Then again, customer service and banks often don't seem to go hand in hand."

Firefox aims for 10 percent of Web surfers

"Netscape open-sourced the source code to ';harness the power' of the open-source community. Now, six years later, this vision is finally coming into fruition. To get over the finish line we needed a non-profit organisation, which allows us to build new partnerships and do innovative marketing."

Grassroots campaign for Firefox

"Later this month or early next, the New York Times will run a full-page ad for a free, open source Web browser called Firefox, which continues to make inroads against Microsoft's Internet Explorer."

(Scott's note: this links to page that offers a 5-minute Real Audio file of the radio interview on Future Tense, a public radio tech show that's always worth checking out.)

TUAWBig ol' collection of Firefox articles, part tres originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:40:10 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

(And remember - you may see some stuff in here about Firefox's kissin' cousins, Thunderbird and Mozilla, as well.)

Mozilla Firefox: It is Microsoft vs. Online community

"November 9 is the D-Day when Firefox announces its presence to whole world, through a full-page advertisement in a major newspaper in USA and other online campaigns that they are ready to rock Microsoft. If they can succeed in upstaging Internet Explorer by dropping its usage numbers even more, maybe the next giant step would be to launch Linux in a similar ways!"

Firefox Is a Worthy Adversary

"I can't think of a very good reason for people who are, for whatever reason, unhappy with IE not to use Firefox. And if it makes you feel better to make some sort of an anti-Microsoft statement through browsing, go for it."

(Scott here. David Coursey in the above article has obviously never heard of a little thing called "Firefox extensions", so his bitching isn't entirely correct).

Microsoft's Worst Nightmare

"Firefox, a free open-source browser that loads twice as fast as Internet Explorer, has already been downloaded 2.7 million times, and it has siphoned off nearly 2 percent of Microsoft's browser market share, now at 93.7 percent. Along the way, Firefox is fast becoming the browser of choice for anyone fed up with all the nasty things polluting the Web (pop-ups and viruses and spyware, oh my!)."

FireFox is Looking Foxy

"... you might be forgiven if you got the sense that this thing just might be for real and could very well slice into Microsoft's share of the browser market. Considering that IE has been dormant for at least two years, and might be dormant for another two years until the next Windows is released, it's beginning to seem that FireFox has some real momentum."

Google to back Microsoft browser foe?

"The Firefox browser is looking for allies in its quest to challenge Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer and Web users are buzzing about a potential link-up with search company Google."

TUAWBig ol' collection of Firefox articles, part deux originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:32:09 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The Fox Cometh

"The source of this momentum isn't really very hard to find. FireFox is a fantastic browser, with an eye on security and compelling user tools like tabs, a download manager and a team of seasoned developers behind it. In addition, because it runs on multiple platforms, it has given the Linux market a world class browser to work with. "

Give me Firefox, or give me death

"In the minds of nearly 10,000 web-surfing proletarians the iron fist is Microsoft, and the way to liberty is an open-source browser called Firefox. Taking a page from the social action playbooks of Middle East peaceniks and political activists, a band of Firefox fans pooled their money to take out a full-page ad in the New York Times. "

Comparing Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox to IE, peers

"IT pros have peppered SearchEnterpriseLinux.com with questions about the two new Mozilla offerings. In turn, we asked our resident expert Nigel McFarlane to answer the ones that popped up most often."

Firefox, bah humbug

"Most here would admit that IE does a better job of inferring proper behavior from incomplete or improperly-used HTML. That's a GOOD thing, and Firefox would do well to learn the same lesson."

(Scott here - I disagree with the above sentiment, but I'm including it so you can read his opinion.)

TUAWBig ol' collection of Firefox articles, part 1 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:29:48 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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