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Grrr - firefox crashes after I've uploaded a file to a website. Happens on geocaching.com, this blog and on Microsoft's site uploading a bug report. Very annoying as the whole browser crashes :-( Not sure what has caused this, probably some faulty extension or something. (It happens when the page you get after uploading a file is displayed). I've sent several reports back to Microsoft and the mozilla group, but the latter is annoying as most of the time the bug reporting application seems to freeze too :-(

Looks like there is a vulnerability in various browsers where you type data into one form but the data really gets sent to another window. An exploit to demo it is at Secunia's website and uses citibank as the form that you would fill in. It doesn't take a genius to work the potential of this exploit - however in this particular demonstration the keystrokes do not appear on the form so some people might get a bit suspicious, but then judging from the people who get infected by the latest virus's there are a lot of not very suspicious people out there in internet land.

I fired up my Firebird browser this morning and the homepage was talking about Firefox 0.8. Looks like it's gone from Phoenix to firebird to firebox. Wish they would make up their mind. I wouldn't have thought this would help matters as its going to make some users confused and also dilutes the brandname if it keeps getting changed.

Now upgraded MT to 2.661 (which meant I had to re-edit MT.pm - thank heavens for MT's search function!)

If you have the java plugin installed for phoenix, and then change your User Agent to Internet Explorer, then when you fire up Phoenix, it will say that you can't use the netscape plugin in Internet Explorer and then give you an ok button.....and hangs. I've reported on something similar to this in the past, but at least last time it did that it actually let you carry on using Phoenix.

After Neil pointed out that Firebird can be downloaded now I tried to access the site but it was dead slow. However I did get the filename. A quick search on google found a site that had the file, dated today. That shows how quickly google updated his page! To save their bandwidth I'm not going to tell you where - just use a bit of common sense!

I was going to download release candidate 0.7 of Firebird, but the Firebird project page mentions the full version will be out on Tuesday so I will wait until then.

Yesterday was the time to install the next build of Firebird as it was nagging me that I was 4 weeks old. So I downloaded the nightly build and was pleasantly suprised to see that my Pop3 webadmin interface no longer prompts me for a username and password for every item on the page, ditto for my adsl router. Very pleased! The tabbrowser extension needed to be updated as it kept complaining and I also upgraded linky too.

Tried to import my mozilla bookmarks from my laptop onto my pc and although it does import, it puts everything in different folders so the bookmarks Toolbar folder that I was hoping to import appears at the bottom of the new bookmarks list. I must say that it was a lot easier to manage the favourites in Internet Explorer.

First impressions are that the only thing that has changed is the logo! It now looks more like fire rather than the Mozilla logo.

Thanks to Neil, I've downloaded the latest version of Firebird, now at 0.61.....So its probably another 30 minutes of installing all the extensions and themes again.

Finally worked out how to use the RSS Reader Panel for Phoenix. I followed the installation instructions and was then wondering - Now what? There didn't seem to be any instructions on how to actually read the rss feeds. Turns out it is pretty simple really. You just need to go to View/Sidebar and select the RSS Feed option! Simple really (but should really be in their instructions!)

As I had recently installed Phoenix on the laptop again, I realised that the saved usernames and passwords were no longer working. A quick search on google found Mozilla Password Recovery Tricks.

Upgraded Firebird on the home pc this morning and although I was fairly well prepared the whole upgrade process is really pants. (Help/About gives you the version number and the date of the build after the word Gecko - thanks for the help on that Neil)They recommend that you install Firebird as a fresh build, so I renamed the firebird directory to firebird.old and then installed into the original location. However if you do this, you loose the following - Extensions, Browser Quick Links and Themes.
The first I'm not bothered about as I've already saved the extensions in a install directory ready for future use.
Browser quick links are annoying and a quick glance through what seems like hundreds of directories does not show an obvious place for these (bookmarks toolbar folder).
I should really have saved the theme into my install directory - doing that right now. (although i've not worked out how to install the themes from a saved location :-(