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| Newer page: | version 83 | Last edited on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:50:48 am | by SteveZobell | Revert |
| Older page: | version 81 | Last edited on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 9:53:55 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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</verbatim>
The file location of the userContent.css will be different for other browsers: try <tt>$HOME/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/chrome</tt> or <tt>$HOME/.mozilla/default/''salt''/chrome/userContent.css</tt>.
Next, copy the [ clickToView.xml | http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/software/clickToView.xml ] file into the "res" subdirectory of the directory where firefox is installed. The command "which firefox" can help determine the directory where firefox is installed, and root may be needed to install the xml file. The xml file comments also give directions for installing clickToView, including hints for Windows OS users.
+
+Any Flash and Java content will be replaced by a button, and if you click the button it will start the animation. Sometimes flash content covers other content and then shrinks to reveal the real page content. To help manage this, the button is translucent (until you put the cursor over the button) to show what is under it. There is also an X button inside that deletes the click-to-view button without playing (this capability was added on 9/21/06).
clickToView.xml really should be in the chrome directory with userContent.css, but this is not yet supported. Eventually, "profile:///chrome" may be available to replace "resource:///res". And "file:///" will not work here. Keeping a copy of clickToView.xml in the chrome directory is a good idea anyway, and you may want to use a symlink to the xml file in chrome from the res directory.
It is possible to load the clickToView.xml from the web instead of installing a local copy, but this can be slow and the xml file may not always be available or may be modified without your knowing. Use a local xml file if you can, but if necessary the file can be loaded from the web by replacing the moz-binding line with this:
<verbatim>
{ -moz-binding: url("http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/software/clickToView.xml#flash"); }
</verbatim>
-There is also a Firefox extension called ~FlashBlock to block Flash, although it only works for recent versions of Firefox 1.4 or 1.5
.
+There is also a Firefox extension called ~FlashBlock that provides similar capabilities
.
!!!Misc Neat Stuff
http://webfx.eae.net/games/minehunter/launcher.html
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I had to set MAXPERIP=5 in /etc/courier/imapd (on a Debian 3.0 server). Otherwise Courier-IMAP defaults to allow only 4 connections per IMAP client and that causes Thunderbird (and Netscape Messenger, IIRC) to stop responding. -- ~FrEd
-- This is actually configured within the mail client (Thunderbird, Netscape Messenger, Mozilla Mail, etc). Go to the Account Settings, then Server Settings, press the 'Advanced' button, and there is field for 'Maximum number of server connections to cache', which is set to 5 by default. -- DanielLawson
!! Slow File Picker
-Firefox 1.5
comes with a GTK2 file picker that is very slow. You may see a large delay when starting a download or using "Save Image As" or "Save Link As". The delay increases if there are many files in the target directory, and KDE users may see more delay than GNOME users. Until this is fixed
, you can recover the old
file picker using
the instructions [ here. | http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1783468#1783468 ] Unfortunately this change will usually have to be reapplied after each Firefox update.
+Linux
Firefox comes with a GTK2 file picker that is very slow. You may see a large delay when starting a download or using "Save Image As" or "Save Link As". The delay increases if there are many files in the target directory, and KDE users may see more delay than GNOME users. The GTK2 file picker also selects the target file name
, so
you cannot middle click to paste previously selected text into the name. You
can recover the built-in XUL
file picker. For Firefox 2 and above, type "about:config" into the URL and find the preference called ui.allow_platform_file_picker. Double click on the preference to change the value to false. More details are [ here. | http://kb.mozillazine.org/Ui.allow_platform_file_picker ] For Firefox 1.5, use
the instructions [ here. | http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1783468#1783468 ]
!!! See also
* [More ad blocking | http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/ad_blocking.html]
