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Subject:		Mozilla Links Newsletter - 11 - January 20, 2004
Date:		Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:59:18 -0800 (PST)

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Mozilla Links - English Edition
Issue # 11 - January 20, 2004
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Welcome back to Mozilla Links!

After last year holidays many of us are still just speeding up to
usual activity, and Mozilla 1.6 is here just in time to help.
Featuring NTLM authentication in all supported platforms, vCard
(virtual business cards) support for Mail and the return of
translation functionality, among other improvements.

Try it here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/download/

We would like to know what topics you'd like to see featured in
Mozilla Links in the future. So this issue's poll asks exactly for
that. If you choose other topics, please drop as a line to let us know
your preferences.

As always, your comments are very much appreciated. Please send them
to newsletter-feedback@mozilla.org

Percy Cabello
Mozilla Links

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In this issue:

1. BETTER MOZILLA
- StumbleUpon
- Managing Several Identities in Websites
- Tuning Download Limits

2. THE NEWS
- Mozilla 1.6 Released
- Roadmap Update: Mozilla Application Suite will be Sustained
- Mozilla Foundation Employees Interviewed on Las Vegas Radio
- Oracle Applications to Support Mozilla as a Client
- Mike Pinkerton Issues Update on the State of Camino

3. MOZILLA INSIDER

4. MOZILLA PROJECTS
- Project of the Week: ConQuery
- Independent Status Report

5. MOZILLA LINKS POLL

6. CONTACT INFO

1. BETTER MOZILLA
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Featured Extension: StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is an extension that allows any user to rate any site he
or she is visiting. Once rates are accumulated StumbleUpon is able to
make suggestions about website that may be of interest based on your
own preferences and other users' suggestions.

The extension will add a toolbar to your Mozilla browser with simple
buttons you use for rating and asking for suggestions.

Try it here: http://www.stumbleupon.com

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Mozilla Links Tip: Managing Several Identities in Websites
(contributed by mozillatips.com)

If you have more than one username & password for the same website,
and are using Mozilla's Password Manager to store and fill in your
login information, it is quite easy to make it remember several
logins for the same website:

Assuming that you have already set up Password Manager to remember
your first login for a particular website:

- Open the login page in Mozilla
- Mozilla will now fill in the stored username & password for this
website.
- Overwrite the username & password with the information for your
second login.
- Click on the login button of the website.
- Mozilla now asks if you would like to remember this information.
- Click on Yes.

>From now on, Mozilla will display a selection box when you return to
this login page and you can select which login information you would
like to use. You can have it remember as many usernames and passwords
per website as you would like. Just repeat the above steps for each
login.

http://www.mozillatips.com/modules.php...

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Mozilla Links PowerTip: Tuning Download Limits
(contributed by mozillatips.com)

Some people have noticed that they cannot have more than 4 downloads
simultaneously. They can start more than 4, but Mozilla will wait
until one of the first 4 is finished before it begins downloading the
next. It almost seems as if it is hanging or waiting. Here is how to
change this:

- Enter "about:config" in the location bar
- Change the setting for
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server" (default =2)
- Change the setting for
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy" (default =4)
- Change the setting for
"network.http.max-connections-per-server" (default=8)
- Change the setting for
"network.http.max-connections" (default=24)

The first two are the ones that prevent opening more than four
downloads simultaneously. However, the default values are adequate for
most download activities and also ensure that users don't hog too much
bandwidth from a single source. So it is suggested to change these
defaults responsibly.

http://www.mozillatips.com/modules.php...

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Need more tips? Try the TipBar Extension to get the Tip of the Day in
Mozilla Firebird. Grab it at http://tipbar.mozdev.org

You can also visit http://www.mozillatips.com for more fun tips for
your favorite browser.

Have a Tip or a PowerTip? Let other users know about it by sending it
to newsletter-feedback@mozilla.org .

2. THE NEWS
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(contributed by MozillaZine, your source for Mozilla news and
advocacy. http://www.mozillazine.org )

Mozilla 1.6 Released
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The Mozilla Foundation has released Mozilla 1.6, the first new
milestone of the year. This latest version features several Mail &
Newsgroups improvements, including vCard support, a preference to
remove mail from a POP server after x days, a setting that places the
user's signature above the quoted text when replying to a message and
optional separate Recipient and Sender columns in the thread pane. In
addition, NTLM authentication is now supported on all platforms, the
automatic page translation function has been restored and several
stability and security bugs have been fixed. The Gecko rendering
engine has received a lot of attention in this release cycle, leading
to improvements in standards compliance and faster page load times
than ever before.

Mozilla 1.6 Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.6/

Download Mozilla 1.6:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.6

Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4177

Roadmap Update: Mozilla Application Suite will be Sustained
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Brendan Eich has updated the Mozilla Development Roadmap, adding a
note that the Mozilla Foundation has no plans to retire the Mozilla
Application Suite in the near future and will continue to release
updates to the program, also known as SeaMonkey. This means that users
of the Mozilla Application Suite will continue to benefit from changes
made to core components such as the Gecko rendering engine and the
Necko networking library. However, no major updates are planned for
the frontend user interface, as the Foundation still wants to focus
innovation in this area on the standalone applications, such as
Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird. Sustaining the Mozilla
Application Suite will benefit enterprises and other organisations
that have standardised on Mozilla 1.x, as well as providing a smooth
upgrade path for users of the discontinued Netscape browser and other
derivatives of SeaMonkey. A major Roadmap overhaul, outlining the path
to Mozilla 2.0 and the future of the open Web, is planned for later
this month.

Mozilla Development Roadmap: http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html

Newsgroup post about the revision:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=mailman.1074299282.26853.mozilla-seamonkey@mozilla.org

Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4181

Mozilla Foundation Employees Interviewed on Las Vegas Radio
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Several Mozilla Foundation employees were interviewed on the January
5th edition of 'Computer Outlook', a Las Vegas talk radio show
broadcast on the local KLAV 1230am station and the Talk Radio Las
Vegas network. In the show, Chris Hofmann, Ben Goodger and Scott
MacGregor discuss several aspects of the Mozilla project with show
host John Iasiuolo, including its history, advantages, licensing and
cross-platform technology. An archived version of the hour-long
'Computer Outlook' show is available for listening online in streaming
MP3 format.

'Computer Outlook' MP3 Stream:
http://www.computeroutlookrts.com/mp3/010504.m3u

Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4152

Oracle Applications to Support Mozilla as a Client
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eWeek is reporting that Oracle plans to allow Mozilla to run Oracle
applications. The move is part of the company's strategy to support
Linux as a client as well a server. No timetable has been given for
enabling Mozilla support, though Oracle says the operation is still in
the early planning stages. The report quotes Mozilla Foundation
President Mitchell Baker, who notes, "Oracle's support of Mozilla in
Oracle products, such as Collaboration Suite, is an important element
in enterprise adoption."

eWeek article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1439289,00.asp

Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4178

Mike Pinkerton Issues Update on the State of Camino
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Mike Pinkerton has posted an update on the state of Camino on his
weblog. In the entry, Mike reports on the new review process,
describes some recent improvements and outlines the short-term
priorities for the future.

Mike Pinkerton's Camino weblog posting:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/archives/004657.html

Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4166

3. MOZILLA INSIDER
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(contributed by Alex Bishop)

After over two years of preparation, the majority of the Mozilla
codebase is to be relicensed under an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license.
Developers will be able to choose whether they want to use the code
under the terms of the Mozilla Public License, the General Public
License or the Lesser General Public License.

Newsgroup posting about the relicensing:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3FFC952B.2020302@mozilla.org

The widely reported Status Bar URL spoofing vulnerability - which
could be exploited by an attacker to create a link that goes to one
address but appears as another in the Status Bar - has been fixed (bug
228176). The patch is included in Mozilla 1.6 and will be in the
forthcoming Mozilla 1.4.2.

By default, the popular Apache Web server serves unrecognized files
with a text/plain MIME type, which can lead to files such as videos
appearing as plain text in the browser window. This should be less of
a problem in future, as Mozilla now asks the user what to do when it
encounters a file with a MIME type of either 'text/plain',
'text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1' or 'text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1'
(bug 220807).

Full status update: http://www.mozilla.org/status/2004-01-19.html

4. MOZILLA PROJECTS
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(contributed by Brian King)

Project of the Week: ConQuery

This week sees a great tool with multiple purposes. It enables you to
interact with web services and send data to web applications, for
example to a blog or a translation service, with just a context click.
ConQuery has many features including sending selected text to a search
engine, seeing the host where a page comes from, and URL querying. The
project has already in place a plugin architecture where you can write
your own query plugins. There is compatibility with Mycroft plugins.
HTTP POST/GET is supported and you can piece together individual
queries with a specially designed configuration dialog.

http://www.mozdev.org/featured/index.html

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Independent Status Reports

The independent status reports include news and updates from Mozilla
application and extension projects hosted on mozdev.org and elsewhere
in the Mozilla community.

The latest report was posted on January 18, 2004 and includes:

XUL Console - v1.2, an extension to ease XUL development work, now
supports evaluation of XUL code from files located not only in the
local file system, but also in Mozilla chrome directory (for
unrestricted XPCOM access) and remote server (HTTP). Everything is
running ahead of schedule. The new version should be out soon.
http://xulconsole.mozdev.org/

mozImage - v0.5, a simple image browser, has some key feature
including a slide show, the ability to scale images to window size,
and easy navigation through file system. It is now compatible with
both Mozilla Browser and Mozilla Firebird.
http://mozimage.mozdev.org/

Mycroft, providing search plugins for Mozilla and Firebird, has 300
new search plugins since September, now totaling 775. There is a top
10 of the most looked for search engines, a new category listing as
well as an improved search algorithm.
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

MozPHP - version 0.1.3, which embeds the PHP interpreter in Mozilla,
there is no need any more to assign MIME type text/php to extension
.php. This is now done internally by the cfh protocol handler.
http://www.thomas-schilz.de/MozPHP/

MozPython - version 0.1.0, which embeds the Python interpreter in
Mozilla, allows you to execute Python scripts in Mozilla. Script
output to sys.stdout is displayed in the browser window. It may, for
example, be useful for you if you have written a Web application with
Python CGI scripts.
http://www.thomas-schilz.de/MozPython/

Archangel - v0.5.0, enabling you to browse RGTP bulletin boards
with Mozilla, is becoming useable as an RGTP client, however, and
there are still many bugs. Support has been added for rgtp://... URLs
(such as "rgtp://rgtp-serv.groggs.group.cam.ac.uk:1432/index").
http://archangel.mozdev.org/

Forumzilla v0.4.5, an extension to Mozilla and Thunderbird for reading
RSS feeds, has an added a "quick load" option that generates messages
based on information in the feed file instead of downloading the story
content; a link to the full story is provided; to use quick load for a
feed, prepend a dollar sign ($) to its URL in subscriptions.txt.
http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/

MozManual - Final 1.0, an introduction to Mozilla; the project web
pages are being modified to better support the translation efforts.
See the project Notes page for details, and requests for translation
help.
http://mozmanual.mozdev.org/

Mozilla-Delphi, resources for working with Mozilla in Borland Delphi
and Kylix, has a new owner. A basic tutorial on using the Mozilla
ActiveX Control is online and bridge classes for Mozilla's JavaScript
engine will follow soon.
http://delphi.mozdev.org/

ConQuery - v0.8a, a context sensitive web query interface extention
for Mz/Fb/Nc, has many new features including improved plugin parser
performance, a HotMenu, plus a new variable [:linkurl] that holds the
target of rightclicked link.
http://conquery.mozdev.org/

Xprint, an advanced printing system which enables X11 applications to
use devices like printers, FAX or create documents in formats like
PostScript, PDF, PCL, etc. The 009 gamma builds of Xprint include
various fixes and TrueType/Opentype font support has now been enabled
by default for Solaris and AIX. Also notable is PDF output is now
available.
http://xprint.mozdev.org/

TipBar - v0.8.0, a Tip of the Day Extension,
A complete rewrite sees access to the tipbar moved to the help menu,
both local and remote databases for failover, and offline support.
http://tipbar.mozdev.org/

Enigmail - v0.83.0, OpenPGP messages for Mozilla, the latest release
has got a new user interface for message composing and other features
and improvements for better convenience.
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Read more about each of these projects in the full report at
http://mozillazine.org/articles/article4186.html

5. MOZILLA LINKS POLL
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On our last issue we asked where do you live, here are the results.

We also asked which games you'd like to see developed for Mozilla in
the future and here are the results:

(*) Results may not sum up to 100% due to rounding.

This issue's poll: What topics would you like to see featured in
future Mozilla Links issues?
- Mastering the internet with Mozilla products
- Deploying Mozilla products in the enterprise
- Developing Mozilla applications
- Inside the Mozilla Foundation
- Inside mozillaZine, mozdev.org and other Mozilla websites
- Other topics

Let your voice be counted at http://newsletter.mozdev.org

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7. CONTACT INFO
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