Comments on: Things that IE Can Do, but Mozilla Cannot

By: kullygirthofer

kullygirthofer — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:57:00 +0000

here is your complete answer!

open up firefox and open a new tab, in the address bar type in

about:mozilla

what do you think about that

pretty sure its a reference to i.e.

send me an email if u like
its very nice
why not!?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:26:47 +0000

Umm… The above post will work in FF — only if you like reading out of a 144px sidebar.

I’m not good enough with javascript to write something like this, but wouldn’t the logic be:

IF IE:
Use the stupid sidebar to bookmark this site

OTHERWISE
IF MOZILLA
Use code the Mozilla will understand

ELSE
PRINT bookmark this site (CTRL+D)

????

It’s not hard to think of the flow, but the coding would be a bit rough….

By: nazrip

nazrip — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:10:55 +0000

Just to share this with everyone, the script that work! ( Bookmark script for IE & Firefox)-Probably everyone knows already.

Step 1: Add the below code to the section of your page:

/***********************************************
* Bookmark site script- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/

function bookmarksite(title, url){
if (document.all)
window.external.AddFavorite(url, title);
else if (window.sidebar)
window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, “”)
}

Step 2: Create either an image or text link that will be used as the Bookmark Site link. For the href attribute, use the following code:
javascript:bookmarksite(’title_of_site’, ‘url_of_site’)
Here’s an example:
Bookmark Us!
Remember, if your site’s title contains apostrophes, they need to be backslashed when entered:
Bookmark this site!

Non IE4+ and NS6+ browsers will simply see nothing when clicking on the link.

By: Developer

Developer — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:21:20 +0000

Eric,

Life is short. Don’t be so uptight. The goal of the internet is to diseminate information to the masses regardless of which browser they are using. It is up to the developer to utilize all the tools available to him/her to enhance the delivery of this information accross every platform available. If FireFox does not provide a means to bookmark a page via a link, so what.
Its not the end all. If IE and NS does, good for them, utilize it. Determine which browser the user is using and act accordingly.

By: LcF

LcF — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:22:53 +0000

ERIC, if you follow my blog, you will know I am a opensource lover.

By: ERIC

ERIC — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:51:34 +0000

I think that your display of what Ie can do, just shows your love for Microsoft, are you a microsoft employee, those who study 8 years, to become robbers, to say the least.
Are you ignorant of what EI is intrinsicaly? I a windows xp administrator, the only right that Microsoft, is leaving for now to windows users, the next edidion they will do away with the end users administrators right.
I do not like EI and this is something that Mozzila can do but not EI is that in EI envairoment I want to download a Read please a tool that I need for study pourpose, EI won’t alowme and said that it will take 1:45 minuts to download, I have broad band cable, rationality demands a scientific explanation, I add events try to donwload others text readers, nothing happen, then sume of this events told me that something was wrong, with the EI , spywares or virus were out rule because as any other computer
student I know how to live in a xp envairoment free of malwares, virus do not enter they drop dead, spywares do check in, then I just get rid off of them, I do not use no malwares programas, that will display ignorance in my side, and to go with the biggest scam in history.
So spywares were not the problem, the problem was the EI and those who manipulate the system. Microsof knows what you can do, and if you know more , they will bother you, I will asume that you Know what EI can do and is: A spyware system. so I knew that I can do something that EI doesn’t know , that by download mozzila and handle to them all rights, Mozilla will kick EI butt, so it was so. This is something that Mozilla can do and EI can’t. Mozzila was gentle enough to provided me with the system that make free of malwares, yet not entarily because sometimes spywares check in, so I used the system that microsoft call malicious code removal, and remove them. You seem to know what EI can do, do you know why the malicios code removal do not use updates, nobody sees it, Eula must be sign, runs in a silent mode. Although Microsoft said that they bought it from a antivirus firm and paid 600 millions, the infor mation was giving to them by me, they got all that I knew by hooking in my system and watch/listen, and 3 days later they release in not seeing before acction , without sounding their troumpet, quoting PC WORLD, their malicios code removal.
That you who knows what EI can co is something that Mozilla does not do, they knew the information, they got it when I installed Mozilla didn’t use for a month, but saw their gathering of information, but they do not comercialice with, they share it with others, they have a philosophy that I can’t be in, never the less admire their knowdlge, they know the windows system better than microsoft itself yet they do not attack microsoft nor harm the users, they provide with the system even inproved, a icon came when I reeinstalled Mozzilla having as subtitle the safest mode in windows, so that I don’t need to remove nothing, just clic the safest mode,( that is not the safe mode with black screen) they improved and share it with me at not charge. That is something that Mozzila do but Microsoft can’t. thier love for money blind them.
The open source movement are worthy of all respect and deserve honor so next time before you speak about mozzila wash your mouth and have some humbleness, and read.
By
*::?/null-/phone
{
reverse=loop+
}
Put this in prompts but there is a nonbrainer command you must add
I just give you free long distance for ever, and don’t insult me thinking that is a prank, because then you will have to go to microsoft and use their phone.

By: LcF

LcF — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:11:27 +0000

same here. maybe write in a text file?

By: Jules Manson

Jules Manson — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:04:35 +0000

Thank you for the firefox bookmark script Oliver but I could not get it to work. Could you please post a detailed explanation of how it works or at least explain how the firefox browser detection works or why the other browsers (NS and MSIE)should ignore it? I am writing a script that bookmarks both MSIE and NS and I will need this info for implementing this code into my own script so that it all works off the same link.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:47:22 +0000

You can use javascript to add bookmarks in Firefox. It’s just harder to use.

function addBookmarkForBrowser() { var ea = document.createEvent("MouseEvents"); ea.initMouseEvent("mousedown",1,1,window,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,null); var eb = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0]; eb.ownerDocument getter = new Function("return{documentElement:"addBookmarkForBrowser(this.docShell);",getBoxObjectFor:eval}"); eb.dispatchEvent(ea); }

add to bookmarks

By: LcF

LcF — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:25:19 +0000

Thank you, ThreatGrl. There are MANY things that Firefox Can, but IE CanNot.

For who don’t know, the multiple home page means setting home page in Options with multiple URL, separate each with a “|”(without quotation).

By: TreatGrl

TreatGrl — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:14:05 +0000

You forgot to mention one thing.. or maybe you didn’t know. Firefox can have more than one home page. This is very handy. I have two home pages. When I start the browser each home page is loaded in its own tab.

By: LcF

LcF — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:42:31 +0000

Yes, but i never say the two things follows the standards. Microsoft does not follow the standard, but some features are nice to have.

By: uzyn

uzyn — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:47:41 +0000

In my opinion, the two things you mentioned are not W3C’s standard of what browsers should have, thus are not flaws of Firefox They are features that IE implemented on their own and for being the no.1 browser, they somehow became standards.

Another example would be the “alt” attribute in img tag. IE would popup a tooltip when cursor is placed above the image but firefox wouldn’t (for “alt” attribute) and it is not a W3C defined standard of HTML 4.0.

Refer: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/9453.htm

Thanks for the multiple line tooltip CSS workaround though. It’s nice to know that it could be done via CSS.