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What I'm about to say would belong more in a new topic, but... Updating Firefox internally is what they're working on right now. They originally planned to include this feature in Firefox 1.5, which is the next next (not a typo) major release, but since they have gotten so much features of 1.5 into 1.1, they are going to put it in the next major release, Firefox 1.5, skipping 1.1. It is due to release in August. Then, we can enjoy Firefox's new features including the internal update. But, I think that the update file would not be just a small patch, so the file size might still be around 4mb. But that's just what I think.

Why don't you just enable it in Options > Advanced? It's much easier than editing it in the about:config. I don't have it enabled, as it slows things down. I prefer to have it go faster, like madcrow. But it is harder to follow a jerky scroll when you're reading a large page of text.

Has anyone tried checking for updates in Options > Advanced? It said that it could not find the update service or something. This happened to me in 1.0.5 too, does it have to do with the API incompatibility with the extensions?

Hey, Google released a new tool, Google Moon. It gives you a satellite image of the moon, so you could know how it really looks like. I'm on dial-up, so I can't really use this tool... Are there any man-made structures on the moon? Can anyone see any flags on the moon? Try zooming in to the highest level, and you'll see how the moon is really like . Oops, forgot a link: https://www.google.com/moon/

Thanks, I just created that alert. I'll wait for the mails.I hope they could get all the bugs out and release 1.1 soon. There are lots of sites that have pop-ups getting through Firefox's pop-up blocker. And I hope we can block some windows from opening with custom masks.

You spelled imagettfbbox with an extra a (imaagettfbbox).And why do you have all your variables start with underscores? You need them only when you want numbers at the beginning of a varible, like $_42lasljwoie. Are you trying to make the variables starting with numbers to look the same as variables starting with letters?The underscores don't cause a problem, but I'm just curious.

Trekkie, where did you get those information? I've search through the Mozilla site, but can't seem to find that. I want to keep up with Firefox news.

Wow, great tutorial! Too bad the reputation system is down, or I'd give you a point! I'll try it on my computer once I can get my hands on it.I'm not using a mac, so I don't know what widgets are. What are they? Are they what you would see when you minimize a window, with just the top bar?Is it possible to hide that Start menu? It looks really hideous when it's in a mac-like environment.

No, no man/woman has ever found a search engine greater than Google.Please don't make boring and spammy posts like this in the future.

I just found out that Google Toolbar is out for Firefox. I downloaded and installed it immediately, but I was a bit disappointed. Although there are a few new features that are not available in Googlebar (the mozdev one) like AutoLink, SpellCheck and PageRank (though I rarely use this one), it has much less tools than Googlebar.There is one tool that lets you search throught your mails in Gmail through your Google Toolbar, it was mostly redundant. When you want to search your mail, you usually already have your Gmail opened. Another point, to search through your mail, you have to login to Gmail first, so you have to wait through the loading time to login to Gmail or Google Accounts first before you search. And because Gmail uses ActiveX, the pages take longer to load than Google search pages, so using the toolbar takes almost as much time to open up Gmail and then search on the page's search form. The only time it is somewhat useful is if you're on a really low speed dial-up, and you've already logined to Gmail before but closed the page. Then you can save the loading time to load the initial search page, which is your inbox page.There is one thing I liked about it: The buttons in Google Toolbar look better than the ones in Googlebar. But that excludes that hideous expanding-search-field button, on the right of the field. That one with 2 arrows with a column in the middle.

Did you say not many deaths or injuries?I heard that there had been over 1000 injured, but I forgot how many dead. I'd say that's a lot. And you would expect that too, with all the debris from the explosions, people can easily get injured.And how can anyone be sure that the statement is really by al-Qaeda? Anyone who knows the language can write something like that and publish it on a site.Jeigh, can you try not to use swear words in you posts? This forum is intended for everyone, and some people can get offended by those words.

I'm sorry to be so rude... But is this news to you? I've been using the Google Toolbar for Firefox since Firefox's PR versions! If you want to get more extensions for your Firefox, go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?application=firefox https://x''>https://x'>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?application=firefox https://x to get the newest and the most popular extensions. Sorry again...

Trekkie, did you lose your mods after the upgrade? I have a few mods installed, and I'm afraid that they may not be compatible with 1.1...I will install it when I get my site done, or when it is out of beta stage, depending on which comes first.

I heard that Adobe CS2 is out! You can check out its new features here. I think that new feature for Photoshop called Vanishing Point would be really interesting. But it might not really be useful. I think the CS1 was already much more advanced than its predecessors. I don't know how much better they can make CS2. What do you think about it? I'm going to get it soon.

OK... The only changes in the code are in the shout.template.php and the code that adds the mod on the pages of your board. Here are the changes in the template file: In this part: function template_shout_box(){ global $context, $settings, $options, $txt, $user_info, $scripturl, $modSettings; echo ' <center>'; // Scrolling? if ($modSettings['enablescrollshout'] == 1) echo ' <marquee direction="', $modSettings['shoutscrolldir'], '" width="', $modSettings['shoutscrollwidth'], '" height="', $modSettings['shoutscrollheight'], '" scrollamount="', $modSettings['shoutscrollspeed'], '" scrolldelay="', $modSettings['shoutscrolldelay'], '" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()">'; // Loop through the shouts! Simply remove the echo center part, so that it looks like this: function template_shout_box(){ global $context, $settings, $options, $txt, $user_info, $scripturl, $modSettings; // Scrolling? Then, scroll down to this part: // End the marquee? if ($modSettings['enablescrollshout'] == 1) echo ' </marquee>'; echo ' <center> <p><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=shout[CODE]_archive">', $txt['shoutbox_43'], '</a></p>';} and change the second echo part to this: echo ' <center> <p><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=shout_archive">', $txt['shoutbox_43'], '</a></p></center>';} The code I use to add the shoutbox to my board came from the smf forum. It puts the shoutbox to the right of the board. Here's the code after it's been edited: echo '</td> <td height="21" valign="top" bgcolor="#404040" /></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#404040" width="150"> <table bgcolor="#828181" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td bgcolor="#303030"><font color="#FFFFFF">Shoutbox</font></td> </tr> <tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#252222">', smfshout(), '</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr></table>'; I may post this in the smf forum later... I'm a bit busy right now...

Ooh, comments...I think it was quite fast. Much faster than trying to load the search page, then actually search. But, Xisto's server is still quite slow, so displaying the results page still takes some time. But that isn't your plugin's fault.Also, you can add some more functions to it, maybe like when you have "user:" before your searching keywords, it would search posts made by the user with the first keyword of your search. Kinda like the "define:" or "site:" function of Google.

I know it would be hard, but could you make the script available to Googlebar users? I use that extension in place of the default search thing of Firefox, and I still want to search Xisto with it.

Hmm... That seems like cheating... Those pages that link to you aren't really visited by any humans, so your site isn't really popular...

I recently read a book on web standards, which made me notice the little xhtml and css validation buttons on the bottom of the page. I have the Ultimate Shoutbox mod installed, and when I try to validate the xhtml on my forum, the mod makes it invalid with unclosed <center> tags. So, I explorered the mod and the script that puts the shoutbox on the page to try to find a solution. And I have found it. I requires editing of both the mod and the script. I might post it here later if people want it.

Sorry for renewing this old post, but have you found a solution to the problem with divs yet, NilsC? I tried doing what you have on your example, but my content doesn't expand when the left menu is longer than it. And I'm not sure whether the expanding divs work on all browsers.

Yay, I've finally found the solution to the problem... I stumbled upon it yesterday on A List Apart. <object type="application/x-shockwave-flashdata="yourflashhere.swf" width="550" height="400"><param name="movie" value="yourflashhere.swf" /><img src="noflash.gif" width="200" height="100" alt="Xisto" /></object> This code follows w3c standards, and should be supported by all browsers. The reason why this works is because when the browser can't work with the <object> element, it goes through the next elements in the list until it finds one that works, which is the img tag. I have only tested this with Firefox and Lynx. In Firefox, the image does not come up when the swf is not found, but only when the plugin is not found. In Lynx, the plugin is obviously not found, so the img tag would be used. Because Lynx is non-graphical, it uses the alt tag of the img element. In my opinion, this combined with some php/dom script, detecting whether the file is there or not, seems to be the best solution I know of. I'm kinda stubborn with what I think is the most logical.

So, have you done it yet? I think if you want to install a forum with a package, it's best to use fantastico in your cpanel. It's the safest and the easiest.

I do understand and grasp the concept of relativity. But, I think that to travel a far distance, such as one of your example, the nearest star, we should not look for an answer that has to do with the Theory of Relativity. I think that wormholes are the key to this. Recently, there are 2 scientists who said that the "semi-classical" wormholes combined with exotic matter would not be stable. I don't know what "semi-classical" means, but they said that it's the ones that are predictable. I don't think the creations of wormholes can be predictable, at least for another 5000 years after they can use wormholes. Wormholes are created "randomly" (To us) by quantum physics, and there isn't any theory yet for the manual creation of wormholes. If we can keep a wormhole that is close to the star open with exotic matter, we can send a spaceship through the hole, then use some device that could move the wormhole towards the star, the first trip would take significantly less time. Then, the following trips would be much easier since the hole is near the star. But, I have no idea how we can move a hole. So, the solution would be off the topic description, but might be the best and fastest solution to the problem.

Hmm... That's really weird... I thought you'd just add the two speeds together to get the real velocity... That is really hard to believe that it's true, cause it doesn't seem to make sense... Isn't the alien traveling only a bit faster than us? If it is moving at 99%C, why would it think that we're moving at less than 1% of C? Or does this involve time and light distortion again?

Hmmm... Do you think my second theory is right? The one with the time slowing down? I thought about it all night, and the more I think about it, the more sense it made. But, I don't think that theory applies when light is moving in the opposite direction as you. Then, it would seem that it is traveling faster than lightspeed, relatively.