After initial evaluation, it seems like the spell checking is broken on trunk Firefox builds. It works with our 1.0.x releases (and the latest Firefox 1.0.5 test builds.)
Posted by asa at July 7, 2005 01:22 PMI'm wondering how it was allowed to install without the information bar popping up, and without me adding it to my software install whitelist...
or is that just me?
Posted by: Simplex on July 7, 2005 01:44 PMi think it's because it signed
Posted by: kA on July 7, 2005 02:12 PMI got the bar saying I needed to white list toolbar.google.com
Posted by: David Robinson on July 7, 2005 02:12 PMSimplex dude wfm.
it popped up for me with the latest trunk build. not with today's branch release candidate.
Posted by: marcelo on July 7, 2005 02:18 PMOdd. When I remove addons.mozilla.org from my whitelist, it asks. When I put it back, it doesn't ask.
Posted by: Simplex on July 7, 2005 02:29 PMIt looks like it opens up an iframe at https://addons.mozilla.org/google/google_toolbar.html which is of course on my whitelist. I guess that's OK. I was just wondering.
Posted by: Simplex on July 7, 2005 02:33 PMForget the spell checking. It's got the PageRank thing working! Yay!
Posted by: Paul Goscicki on July 7, 2005 02:36 PMMozilla works with a lot of 3rd-party software vendors and we often host their extensions at addons.mozilla.org where the information toolbar doesn't show because the software install whitelist is already populated with addons.mozilla.org.
In this case, the volume might have crushed our addons.mozilla.org server so the toolbar itself lives at Google but the install page lives at https://addons.mozilla.org/google/google_toolbar.html.
-A
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on July 7, 2005 02:53 PMHum, interesting... Google also released another two firefox extensions - Google Suggest and Google Send to Phone.
http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/extensions/
Posted by: [BISI] on July 7, 2005 03:20 PMwhat ever happend to the google web accelerator?
Posted by: Jmack on July 7, 2005 03:54 PMHmm... I get 'Firefox could not download the file at [location here] because signing could not be verified.'
Posted by: Rishi on July 7, 2005 04:51 PMAwesome! As Asa says, the Spellcheck is broken in the trunk builds, but other than that, it is great. Of course versions of it has been available for a while, but it's great to see Google putting in support for Firefox itself. I think we can safely call Google the pioneer in Firefox compatibility among the big web services.
Posted by: yfan on July 7, 2005 05:16 PMThe spellchecker is the one thing I'd really love to have from this (As is seems better than spellbound extension.) all the rest i don't want or need.
However it's too intrusive as i can't use it without the toolbar with all the stuff I don't need showing.
Posted by: Paul on July 7, 2005 06:09 PMAnyone else using a theme besides the default? I'm using Firefox Modern and Google Toolbar's buttons are all misplaced with it. :-\
Posted by: Aaron44126 on July 7, 2005 06:12 PMhttp://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
@Stunned:
Name: moztorrent
Description: BitTorrent client plugin for Firefox
Created: Jan 19th 2005
Damn Opera trolls.
Posted by: Ryan on July 7, 2005 10:45 PM2Ryan
They did nothing since then if the date is correct.
BTW, where did you find the date?
So, please, stop calling Opera users as damn trolls.
2Rayn
So where is your plug-in? It is already being implemented and beta tested in Opera 8.02 TP1. If you are going to boast of dates (which are not confirmed yet), so you will be like Microsoft, which patents technologies, but does not make and implement.
For your records - the first browser, which implemented P2P technology, is Deepnet Explorer - http://www.deepnetexplorer.com/ - it works with Gnutella network.
But it does not support BitTorrent.
So Opera 8.02 is the first browser, which implemented BT technology support in a browser and it did not lie with dates.
You may like it or not, but it's damn true. No matter how trollish I look like in your eyes.
Stupid trolls. This post is about Google toolbar. :-|
Posted by: minghong on July 8, 2005 01:49 AM2minghong
go home, kid
Calling another person a troll does sound rather trollish and it can be considered like a personal insult.
So, mr T26NOV.ragnarok, you don't think saying
"http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!"
can be called trollish?
Posted by: David Naylor on July 8, 2005 03:32 AMI am not responsible for other opera users, but me personally would never do like that. I do not like this way of behavior and I blame this person actually for this escapade.
Posted by: T26NOV.ragnarok on July 8, 2005 03:39 AMAnd the 'Opera trolls' wasn't directed at you, so what's all the fuss about?
Posted by: David Naylor on July 8, 2005 07:01 AMHere's an idea: Comment on the subject of the blog post or don't comment at all.
Posted by: duhriddler on July 8, 2005 09:14 AMAlso, I believe that Ryan was swearing at the trolls that use Opera, not calling all Opera users trolls.
Posted by: duhriddler on July 8, 2005 09:19 AMJust because one browser implements a good idea first, it doesn't make every subsequent browser who implements the same feature a copycat. Opera/Mozilla/Netscape/IE are all copycats of Mosaic. Waaaah! Call mommy so she can make it better! This applies to fanboys of all browsers.
Fanboyism is a disease. Grow up and/or get a life.
Well said... Greg
Posted by: Scorpion on July 8, 2005 12:20 PMStunned: "http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
COPY CATS !!!
T26NOV.ragnarok: So Opera 8.02 is the first browser, which implemented BT technology support in a browser and it did not lie with dates.
You may like it or not, but it's damn true. No matter how trollish I look like in your eyes.
I remember hearing about a BitTorrent extension/plugin for Firefox a couple of months ago, when it was mentioned as a candidate idea for Google's Summer of Code. Check what made the cut on MozDev.
The deadline was June 14th, but I heard about it about a month before that. I remember thinking what a great idea that was. True innovation. Then a week or two ago, Opera suddenly announces they were going to include the feature. I remember thinking, "What putzes! All they can do is copy Firefox features!" And what a great high profile place to steal ideas from, an open source funding contest.
So that's the real story.
Posted by: benspace on July 8, 2005 11:05 PMThe project did nothing and died as it seems.
Posted by: T26NOV.ragnarok on July 9, 2005 12:09 AMbenspace: The real story is implementing bittorrent support does not happen overnight. Anyone implementing the bittorrent protocol from scratch will take quite some.
Posted by: uncle on July 10, 2005 01:08 AMsorry for my intervention. keep up the google discusion.
the comment was for asa only, which constantly bashes Opera for having features that FF is implementing or will implement.
nops, I not a fanboy. FF is a great browser :D
Again the comment was for asa.
@Asa "you're gay!"