Here's an idea. In stead of "Ask Asa" where you all ask a lot of great questions and I try to come up with useful answers, what if you all ask questions, I select some subset and post them to the blog and request others in the community chime in with answers. Rather than me being the focus, I'll just act as a conduit. What do you all think? Worth trying? If so, go ahead and ask your questions (hold off, if you've got answers, until I round up the questions and post them to the front page.)
if it's a silly idea, no one will ask or answer questions and we can all try something different :-)
Posted by: Matt Nordhoff | April 20, 2006 9:20 PM
Why is it so difficult to find information about what fonts are being used while a page is being displayed?
Also why are the font option so obtuse: I understood that the default font for unicode is selected by choosing the "other languages" encoding? Who thought that up?
If the page is encoded unicode (sent with utf8 encoding), How does ff decide what font to use, and is there any way in the options to influence its choice, beyond the default fonts you've chosen for "other languages" (like the fonts you've chosen for some of the other language codes: do they ever influence what fonts pages sent with utf-8 are displayed with)? Why can't ff add missing language codes? Why are the language codes not shown (but just the language name?).
Posted by: Hung up about fonts | April 20, 2006 11:19 PM
Why have the number of posts on Planet Mozilla tailed off in recent months? Has the discussion moved to the new newsgroups? Or are people knuckling down to deliver Firefox 2 and have less time to blog? Or is it something else? Or is it just my preception? Is it a bad thing? Does anyone even care?
Posted by: Andrew Smith | April 21, 2006 1:14 AM
Ask Asa ask (his) acquaintances/affiliates?
Posted by: xeen | April 21, 2006 1:57 AM
Rename it "Asa acts like a conduit and tells", then it's a good idea ;-)
Posted by: Robert Accettura | April 21, 2006 3:45 AM
Andrew Smith: mozilla.dev.firefox is a pretty busy newsgroup....
Posted by: Matt Nordhoff | April 21, 2006 4:12 AM
Asa, does the Firefox community support the practice of designing websites so that they’re deliberately broken if you view them in any browser other than Firefox?
Details here:
Posted by: Ed Bott | April 21, 2006 6:18 AM
Sounds a good idea Asa, probably more efficient better way of doing it too. Answer some questions, let some peeps help by submitting answers, with more/different kinds of info too etc.
Posted by: Kris Silver | April 21, 2006 6:18 AM
I have one :) What happened to jst? I don't see him anymore committing bug fixes.
Posted by: i5mast | April 21, 2006 6:38 AM
When, if ever, can we expect to see genuine and exciting innovation from MoFoCo developers again?
If we have to rely on extension developers then we might just get Mozilla Firefox Toolbar Edition - or wait... - yet another crappy way to use the pixelated results of the canvas / SVG code (foxpose, reveal, showcase).
Posted by: pd | April 21, 2006 6:39 AM
Will we ever see some of the obvious flaws in Firefox functionality fixed?
Ah yes I remember the days when IE-haters would hammer MS for not providing a "Manage This" or "Manage That" widget.
Along comes Fx and months/years after MS delivered Manage Add-ons and Manage Popups, we still don't have Manage Search in Fx. Could this be because it might just compromise the Fx revenue model?
Next on the list is the amazingly crappy 'Live Bookmarks'. Will Places fix this? I doubt it. Meanwhile Sage and ScrapBook not only wireframe the answers for y'all but actually code them as well! Just merge these two brilliant extensions or integrate them into Fx as separate features but please, do it now!
Meanwhile Tab Mix Plus turns Fx into what it actually claims to be - a tabbed browser - whilst adding Just Damn Useful (TM) features such as session saving/restoring, tab close buttons, tab recycling and real single window mode. All in a light and simple package.
Need I go on ?
Posted by: pd | April 21, 2006 6:54 AM
>we still don't have Manage Search in Fx. Could this be because it might just compromise the Fx revenue model?
This feature is in development right now, you can download a test build with this funcionality at http://gavinsharp.com/ff/
Posted by: Gids | April 21, 2006 8:28 AM
Conduit Asa, Where does the money go to that mozilla gets. charity? firefox development? hot tubes, and sports vehicles?
Posted by: whoknow_ta_Damacha | April 21, 2006 10:47 AM
how much does firefox weigh?
Posted by: Tomtom | April 21, 2006 7:34 PM
Do you see Firefox reaching 15% market share by the end of this year?
Posted by: Gabe | April 21, 2006 10:02 PM
IE7 will swab the deck with Firefox's hair, hopefully not too long after it's out of beta. :)
Gord
Posted by: Gord | April 21, 2006 10:50 PM
You should really call it "Ask someone else".
Posted by: Ben Basson | April 22, 2006 2:32 AM
This bug is quite perturbing :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297906
I can confirm it but i don't have account on bugzilla.
Is this bug going to be fixed before thunderbird 3 ?
(Some podcast don't have link in the rss item, so only the first item is shown :-/)
ho, and also i don't know why some feeds from feedburner and wordpress (like the feed of scoble's blog) are truncated, as exactely the same feeds are complete on google reader.
Thanks ! :)
Posted by: JL | April 22, 2006 4:34 AM
Actually the bug about truncated feed seems to be fixed in TB 1.0.5.2, the new items are complete.
Sorry.
Posted by: JL | April 23, 2006 12:07 PM
Places was just removed from Bon Echo. Even though there are some good changes still in Bon Echo do you really think it warrants a major version change? Most of the new features aren't that significant so wouldn't it be better to call this release a 1.6 rather than a 2.0. Because if I know the geek/enthusiast community they are going to ramble that 2.0 brings nothing new to the table and so on...and the last thing we need is bad publicity
Posted by: Malik | April 24, 2006 10:39 AM
they removed the "places" out of ehco? the bastards!
why??? i thought it was good idea.
Posted by: frot | April 24, 2006 4:59 PM
According to Secunia there are 3 open vulnerabilities in FireFox
The latest http://secunia.com/advisories/19698/ is being worked on and it seems that it will be fixed for .03 but there are two older vulnerabilities that have been filed for a very long time now and no appreciable work being done on them. These bugs look very bad on FF's profile as compared to Opera (which has zero reports) When can you estimate that FF will be totall vulnerability free (as in reported by agencies like secunia etc)?
PS: The relevant bug ids are
267123 (for the partially fixed vulnerability http://secunia.com/advisories/12979/)
162134 for http://secunia.com/advisories/12403/
252342 for http://secunia.com/advisories/12580/
I would really appreciate an answer to this question
Thanks
Posted by: Al | April 25, 2006 12:23 AM
Its more of a request rather than a question. Can you please ask the trunk devs to include this?
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/archives/010001.html
Posted by: Uzi | April 25, 2006 12:33 AM
Is there any website/wiki/forum/blog/whatever that serves as a Firefox extension suggestion box, allowing people who have ideas for extensions to try and find a programmer?
Noam.
Posted by: Noam | April 29, 2006 12:32 PM
Anyone word on when this will be done?
Posted by: Ashcroft | May 4, 2006 8:53 PM
I dunno. The question I've been wanting to ask is why the titles of your blog entries are always all lowercase, and I don't know if other people would have an answer to that...