Comments: Firefox Help is Dead -- Long Live Firefox Help!

Awesome! This is great new.

Your content is appreciated by the mozilla community. But I think many third parties don't realize (or trust) it's accuracy, since it's not housed under mozilla.org. I think this is a big advantage for mozilla.org to be hosting it.

I hope you'll continue to keep up the great work. It's by far the best support site to date. And I'm pretty sure it's only going to get better. Hopefully you can get a good sum of dedicated volunteers to help it grow even more.

Posted by Robert Accettura at September 15, 2004 11:51 PM

Firefox 1.0 exhibits virus-like behavior when I click on unstuffed archive, then the Firefox icon. A Firefox icon pops up in the dock, then alternately appears and disappears. All attempts to get something going lead no where. A dialog box did ask about getting preferences from a previous version of Firefox or Netscape. (I use crashes-now-and-then Netscape 7.2 and "can't find the site" Safari 1.x instead of the AOL browser.) This Firefox version 1.0 is stored in the Quarantine folder until further notice! (Are you sure this isn't a Microsoft application? It sure acts like one or a cracker-created virus.) PEA

Posted by Patrick E. Abe at September 16, 2004 2:16 AM

Patrick,

Don't run the application from the mounted drive. Copy the Firefox program to your home Applications folder or the system /Applications folder and run it from there.

Posted by none at September 16, 2004 3:10 AM

I can't seem to get the themes to work. Anyone else had this problem?

Posted by Tom Peranteau at September 16, 2004 3:15 AM

Tom most themes have not been updated yet to the 0.10 version - they are supposedly 'not compatible' with the latest release and thus FF won't let you install them.
Leave a few days to the themes developper to react (Qute author promised it will be ready by week end for example)

Posted by franCk at September 16, 2004 3:29 AM

I would hope the transition would be from HTML to XHTML... not the other way around. damn.

Posted by Patrick at September 16, 2004 5:43 AM

> ... with the first step of converting the XHTML source code into HTML

What the... Why???
Instead of doing this, we should convert HTML pages in mozilla.org to XHTML...

Posted by minghong at September 16, 2004 6:50 AM

Hey! That's great that you've moved your help over. That being said, thanks a ton for all the help that I've found on your site over the years. When I first started in .6 I wouldn't have gotten very far if it hadn't been for your site.

Thanks a ton! Your site really made a difference.

Posted by shodekiagari at September 16, 2004 8:28 AM

minghong - "What the... Why???
Instead of doing this, we should convert HTML pages in mozilla.org to XHTML..."

And why would they do that? XHTML has no advantages in this case and full compatibility with IE is required for mozilla.org.

Posted by Luke Shingles at September 16, 2004 10:50 AM

I hope your extensions & Theme pages are moved over too, update.moz.org is a poor replacement...

Posted by gman at September 18, 2004 10:21 PM