Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

Nice. Could it be added onto the testimonials if it were editted for length?

Wow. I am moved. Forgive me for being sentimental, but this this gotta be the most touching moment in my 3 year association with the fox.

I totally agree with her. Those are the reasons I love Firefox as well!

I hate to do this, but I like to bring your attention to one reason why I might not love firefox as much in the future:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/darin/archives/009594.html
:-(

I think this is a VERY bad idea!!!

"I think this is a VERY bad idea!!!"

So bad that it's already possible in a stupid unfriendly way to the user and shouldn't be improved from the user's point of view?

This is the difference between a link like

http://www.cusser.net/?234dsfdsf2eg4356dfgdfgdfgdgfderfgdfgdfg=http://gotosomeevilwebsite.com

and

http://gotosomeevilwebsite.com (and also notify "http://www.cusser.net/?234dsfdsf2eg4356dfgdfgdfgdgfderfgdfgdfg")

The objective is that the user knows what their actual destination is and can get there regardless of whether the redirect script is working or not, so long as the destination is.

Whether this is the job of the web browser is another issue, but I don't see any reason to
dislike the principle. This is already possible with JavaScript and only the tinfoil hat wearers turn JavaScript off, or disable referrers (which do the same but from the other end of the link-clicking).

I also don't see why you couldn't have posted in Darin's comments, really.

Whenever I see a referral link that's wider than my status bar, the first thing I do is copy it, look for any URL stuck on the end of it, and go to that instead. If there isn't one I'll just leave the site.

If sites want to data mine my browsing, they do so unintrusively or get nothing at all.

I vote for very bad idea, at least if it's on by default and can't be turned of with a quick trip to the prefs panel.

Also,

- You can run a 'remove redirects' marklet to get rid of junk like:
'http://www.cusser.net/?234dsfdsf2eg4356dfgdfgdfgdgfderfgdfgdfg=http://gotosomeevilwebsite.com'

and

-Part of what I like about iCab is that the developer (literally singular) seems to get the "it's my computer, it should work for me" message.

So in iCab, whether for MacOS or OS X, the user can use filters to enable, disable, and control referers, content, scripts etc. and do so on a per site or even finer grained basis if desired. Not as good being able to run a script like remove redirects automatically when a filter is triggered would be [hint-I SAY HINT], but it's a start.

I don't wear a tinfoil hat, I don't think the NSA is after me, I don't think turning cookies off would stop them if they were. I do have referers limited to the same site and cookies similarly limited and set to auto-expire except for specific sites I actually want to remember me, because as irrelevant, inconsequential, and innocuous as that data is, it's mine and I'll decide who my computer will share it with.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mozilla Team has quietly enabled a new feature in Firefox that parses 'ping' attributes to anchor tags in HTML. Now links can have a 'ping' attribute that contains a list of servers to notify when you click on a link. Although link tracking has been done using redirects and Javascript, this new "feature" allows notification of an unlimited and uncontrollable number of servers for every click, and it is not noticeable without examining the source code for a link before clicking it."

Hey guys, how about not hijacking this post to talk about something completely unrelated. It's just rude.

- A

That's certainly one of the best testimonials I've seen. It shows us that Firefox can be used by anyone. Very well done. I hope this one can still make it to the official ones...

Ben said "It shows us that Firefox can be used by anyone."

Dude, as far as I can tell, she's only deaf. That's hardly a disability that would prevent her from using any browser.

I agree I should not have started that here!
I'm sorry!

Hey ASA

Nice try with that Firefox Testimonials Page :-( *grumble*

It does not play the sound at all under Linux in FF 1.5!!!

Those flash videos are bad to use under Linux tho.

Otherwise this is a swell project and i love FF.

Keep up the good work

My god, that was basolutely fantastic. I found it rather touching. ^_^

I wish 'tweren't too long.

How about a non-flash version or a transcript for those of us who are on "alternative" platforms?