Monthly Archives: November 2005

Mozilla Firefox v1.5 Released

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Mozilla Firefox v1.5

I’m a huge fan of Mozilla Foundation and their products. So it’ not unusual for me to immediately have the latest stable version of Firefox and Thunderbird not to mention alpha/beta versions. Unfortunately Firefox v1.5 is the first version I’ve installed and immediately afterwards down graded to the previously stable final release (v1.07). Don’t get me wrong the bug fixes, new features and other imrpovements are great. However more then 50% of my Mozilla Firefox extensions and themes are no longer compatible nor could it find updates to fix the incompatibility problem. There was a few exceptions of extensions that did work, which I have listed below. I even went out to search for updates manually for Firefox v1.5 for my extensions and themes and I came up empty. I realize these extensions and themes are independant however I use a lot of them on a daily bases and can not go without them. In my case I could have survived if Chatzilla and Zhluk.com DevBoi extensions worked.

I was very impressed with the seemless and trouble fee upgrade to Firefox v1.5. Unfortunatly when I down graded something messed up causing user control popups and links not to function normally. I ended up having to uninstall Firefox (excluding my profile) and re-install from scratch. I hope to see the extesions updated soon so I can enjoy the benefits of Firefox v1.5.

At this point I would recommend to all users thinking of upgrading to Firefox v1.5 to check to see if the extensions and themes important to you work in Firefox v1.5 before upgrading. If you do upgrade of course make sure to do a backup of your critical files including creating a list of extensions/themes/plugins/search engines. I’m not aware of an extension that will create a list of all of those but there is one extension that can handle creating a list of extensions and themes, InfoLister.

My Installed Compatible Firefox v1.5 Extensions

My Installed Incompatible Firefox v1.5 Extensions

My Installed Incompatible Firefox v1.5 Themes

How To – Make CSS :hover Pseudo-Class work in IE

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As you may have discovered that currently IE does not support the pseudo-class :hover on non anchor element tag(s). However there is two solutions to this problem. The Suckerfish:hover or Whatever:hover. In my case I wanted to apply pseudo-class :hover onto multiple div element tags. I chose to use the Suckerfish:hover solution as it’s simple and very little code required to solve the problem. Whatever:hover has quite a bit of code and apparently has issues that might not make it work even in IE. I’m sure Whatever:hover has it’s place but in my mind either use JavaScript to solve the problem. I would prefer not to use JavaScript but what can you do :-) . Here’s the Suckerfish:hover solution with my modifications (not much). I will not go much into this as the two source I have given are more then enough. I just wanted to show my modifications and to get more exposure to this problem.

CSS
I just add div.sfhover to my existing style.

div.float:hover, div.sfhover
{
background-color: #dde5f7;
}

JavaScript
I only modified this line var sfEls = document.getElementById(“nav”).getElementsByTagName(“LI”); to the following so it would be applied to an id called hover and to only div element tags enclosed in with in the hover id.

sfHover = function()
{
var sfEls = document.getElementById("hover").getElementsByTagName("div");
for (var i=0; i {
sfEls[i].onmouseover=function()
{
this.className+=" sfhover";
}
sfEls[i].onmouseout=function()
{
this.className=this.className.replace(new RegExp(" sfhover\\b"), "");
}
}
}
if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", sfHover);

Source: Suckerfish:hover
Source: Whatever:hover

Sony BMG – Infects Music CDs with Rootkit

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For awhile now Sony BMG, has been under a bright spot light of criticism for protecting their music CDs with an XCP Rootkit. I WARN everyone stay clear of these discs. The protection is a violation of your rights and it physically changes the way your Windows operating system acts, makes the system unstable and opens the door to huge security risks. Not to mention the software goes back to Sony BMG’s site to report what content you are viewing/listening to.

For further details on the XCP Rootkit and how to remove it, use the below resources. I’ll leave this up to the experts. A complete and well explained coverage of this is in the podcast Security Now, episode #12. Listen to the show it’s great and in words anyone can understand.

Source: Security Now – Episode #12 – Sony’s “Rootkit Technology” DRM (copy protection gone bad)
Source: Finally! Full List of CDs Infected with XCP Rootkit
Source: Rootkit
Source: Boycott Sony