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A couple of Mozilla pieces, courtesty of Blogzilla. First up is the news that Dave Hyatt is leaving Netscape to work for Apple (Hixie mentioned this the other day). Blogzilla’s jeffp wonders if this could mean the beginning of iBrowser, considering Dave’s previous work on the Chimera browser which builds a Mac interface on top of Mozilla.

Blogzilla also report on a new proposed Mozilla feature entitled Incremental Find. This feature lets you type straight in to Mozilla and have the cursor jump to links matching what you type, allowing for lightning fast browsing via the keyboard. An XPI to install a preview of the feature can be downloaded from here.

Posted 15th July 2002 at 9:18 pm

This is Via Blogzilla... by Simon Willison, posted on 15th July 2002.

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  1. Since I don't want to set up a newsreading program to access the mozilla discussion groups, I'll make my suggestion here. The feature I most want in Mozilla is a regexp-based filter for replaced objects, namely images, flash objects, etc. Say I never want to see a flash presentation every again: I would create a filter that does a match for "\.swf" and any request for an object which matches is not carried out. If I'm morally opposed to ads from the nytimes (which serve ads from the same server as the stories, negating Mozilla's "block images by server" feature) then I could create a filter which matches "nytimes.com/ads". This isn't the user-friendliest feature (you need to be familiar with regexp's) but it sure would be cool.

    Micah - 16th July 2002 11:22 - #

  2. That's an interesting idea, although blocking files based on mime-types would work better for stopping stuff like flash (a flash file can be served up with any extension as long as the mime-type is right). You can cusotmise Mozilla using ECMAscript so writing a regexp filter for it is probably easier than you would have thought.

    Simon - 16th July 2002 16:32 - #

  3. mime-types is a coverall, but some ads are actually useful, like Slashdot ads alerting me to new products at the ThinkGeek store. Or the rack-mounted Google box. I would rather be able to selectively block object. So ECMAscript would do the trick. I'll look into it and see if its feasible.

    Micah - 16th July 2002 17:13 - #

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