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Our last issue called for your feedback to find out which e-mail
applications made up the 20% of respondants who answered "Other" in
our previous poll. Pegasus, The Bat, Incredimail, Ximian Evolution,
Courier, Pine, Novell Groupwise and Turnpike are the applications
cited. It seems there's plenty of excitement in the e-mail
applications arena.
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Mozilla Links - English Edition
Issue # 7 - November 25, 2003
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Welcome back to Mozilla Links!
Our last issue called for your feedback to find out which e-mail
applications made up the 20% of respondants who answered "Other" in
our previous poll. Pegasus, The Bat, Incredimail, Ximian Evolution,
Courier, Pine, Novell Groupwise and Turnpike are the applications
cited. It seems there's plenty of excitement in the e-mail
applications arena.
The new Mozilla website has been launched and it offers an even
clearer interface for users who like to keep updated with the most
recent releases, more information about the Mozilla community and its
products. The site also offers links to the Mozilla Links website
and the new Mozilla store, where you can get the Mozilla CD and
pre-order your T-shirt.
Our last poll, shows people really enjoy mastering the smart beast
called Mozilla as well as keeping abreast of current Mozilla
development. What other information or sections would you like to see
featured in Mozilla Links? Please let us know your suggestions by
sending an e-mail to [E-mail:newsletter-feedback@mozilla.org] .
Percy Cabello
Mozilla Links
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In this issue:
1. BETTER MOZILLA
- Preferential
- Tell Your Friends About a Great Webpage
- Know Everything About: Your Mozilla
2. THE NEWS
- New mozilla.org Site Launches
- Mozilla T-Shirt Available for Preorder at Mozilla Store
- NTLM Authentication Supported by Mozilla on All Platforms
- Many Organisations Employing Mozilla Contributors
3. MOZILLA INSIDER
4. MOZILLA PROJECTS: Adblock and Independent Status Reports
5. MOZILLA LINKS POLL: What's Something About Mozilla?
6. CONTACT INFO
1. BETTER MOZILLA
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Featured Extension: Preferential
(developed by Stephen Bounds, Biju G. C., Mike Cartwright, et al)
With Preferential, you can set every single property used by Mozilla
(currently, about 650), Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird. It
presents all the available settings you get when typing about:config
in the location bar, plus they are presented in an easy to navigate
hierarchical tree where each setting is briefly described and a list
of valid values for each setting.
Try it at http://preferential.mozdev.org
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Mozilla Links Tip: Tell Your Friends About a Great Webpage
(contributed by mozillatips.com)
Telling your friends about a great webpage you have found is easy. You
can use Mozilla to send a link to it or even attach the complete web
page for immediate view.
To do this, open the page in Mozilla and select Send Link from the File
Menu. Mozilla will open your default e-mail application with a link as
the message that is ready to be sent. All you have to do is type your
friend's e-mail address, add your personal message and press "Send".
If the Mozilla Mail component is installed, you can select
"Send Page..." in the File menu. You will get the same message with the
link and the the web page attached automatically as an HTML file to
your e-mail.
Complete tip:
http://www.mozillatips.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=93&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Mozilla Links PowerTip: Know Everything About: Your Mozilla
(contributed by mozillatips.com)
Mozilla's about: commands will reveal interesting facts about the
innards of your Mozilla installation. Some may help you find the
information you were looking for. Others, like about:mozilla or the
about:kitchensink are just here for fun. In Mozilla history, the
kitchensink was an interactive ASCII-art (draw made of text
characters), now available for enthusiasts at:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/samples/kitchensink.xml
To see any of these, just type the command in the location bar and
press Enter.
COMMAND ACTION
about: About Mozilla Page
about:blank Display a blank page
about:buildconfig Display the build configuration
about:cache Display browser cache information
about:cache?device=memory List memory cache entries
about:cache?device=disk List disk cache entries
about:config Configuration screen
about:credits Credits to the Mozilla developers
about:logo Display the Mozilla logo
about:mozilla Mozilla-related text
about:plugins List currently installed third party plug-ins
Complete power tip:
http://www.mozillatips.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=89&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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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 [E-mail: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 )
New mozilla.org Site Launches
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The new mozilla.org website has been launched. This new site caters
more to the end user, with better product information, clearer
download links and more details about help resources. New Mozilla
initiatives, such as telephone support, CD sales, and donations are
now promoted throughout the site. Navigation has also been improved
and a friendlier layout and color scheme have been created. This is
the first significant redesign of mozilla.org since its launch in
1998.
New mozilla.org Website: http://www.mozilla.org/
Mozilla Web Site Project: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/website/
Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3969
Mozilla T-Shirt Available for Preorder at Mozilla Store
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The Mozilla Store is now taking preorders for the new Mozilla T-Shirt.
This 100% cotton white shirt features the red Mozilla tyrannosaurus
rex head on the front and left sleeve, with black 'mozilla.org' text
on the back. Available in small, medium, large, x-large and xx-large
sizes, costing from US$12.95 to US$15.95, the product will ship in
the first week of December.
Mozilla T-Shirt:
http://store.mozilla.org/s.nl/c.300097/sc.7/category.-107/it.A/id.46/.f
Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3974
NTLM Authentication Supported by Mozilla on All Platforms
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Microsoft's NTLM authentication protocol, popular on Windows-based
corporate networks, is now supported by Mozilla on all platforms.
Previously, NTLM authentication was only available to Windows Mozilla
users, requiring the presence of the SSPI code that is built in to
Windows. Now, the SSPI-based system has been discarded and a
cross-platform implementation has been checked in.
Bug 224653: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224653
Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3990
Many Organisations Employing Mozilla Contributors
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For many years, Netscape provided several full-time employees to work
on Mozilla. Since AOL pulled the plug on Netscape's contributions to
the project in July, many have assumed that all the work is now done
by volunteers. However, that is not the case and a variety of
organisations have either expanded their Mozilla workforce or started
hiring lizard-friendly employees for the first time.
The Mozilla Foundation now cuts the checks for David Baron, Asa
Dotzler, Brendan Eich, Ben Goodger, Chris Hofmann, Scott MacGregor,
Myk Melez, Daniel "leaf" Nunes and Johnny Stenback, who are employed
on a full-time basis, and Mitchell Baker, who works for th
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