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Postby richard mitnick » Wed 18 Jun, 2008 4:16 pm

Hey John-

Thanks for the suggestion.

Jay Garcia , the old Netscape Champion, told me that a lot of his people were now at Flock. I looked at Flock, it seems to me that it would be over-burdeoned with its social mission.
Can I have Flock as just a browser without all of that other stuff?

I mean, you know, I don't even want to get started if that's not possible. I am not hard up.

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Postby iJohnE » Wed 18 Jun, 2008 5:13 pm

Well, if you were up to hacking the source of flock you could. What you could also do is to download SeaMonkey, and install the Browser only.
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Postby PaulD » Wed 18 Jun, 2008 6:01 pm

Richard - concerning the form autofill [sdp=92158]problem[/sdp], some thoughts.

1. Is there any difference in any AV products or their settings?

2. I would think that your comparison of the about:config's would have found anything here, but --- The settings for this appears to be in
- Tools > Options > (tab) Privacy >
-- (section) History, 2nd check box; and
-- (section) Private Data > (button) Settings.

3. In the Profile there is a file, formhistory.dat; looking at it with an editor, it is another. 'mdb'-format file. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some other file (key3.db?) also is tied in. So you could, should you be so inclined, experiment . (If your editor has the capability, you can strip out all the '$00' strings; this will leave textual material that is somewhat readable. Notepad will do this, albeit slowly. Just remember not to Save the stripped file!)

4. In reading about FF3, at some point I think that I read that some of these internal files have been changed to a different technology. I may be mis-remembering, or, Forms may not have been changed. I'll have to look that up again some time. No commitments.

5. There also appear to be at least two, possibly more, ways for sites to code the fill-in fields. I've run across a discussion concerning the security aspects of the different methods. It is possible (my speculation) that FF3 has been modified to accommodate these changes, which would be in concord with the enhanced security screenings that have been incorporated.
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Postby Fulvio » Sun 22 Jun, 2008 2:34 pm

richard mitnick wrote:Can I have Flock as just a browser without all of that other stuff?

>>RSM


Richard,
I am using Flock as an alternate to Firefox2.0.0.14. The social stuff is not compulsory.
I, surely, do not use it. You can ignore what is offered, or take a look at it, and not participate.
To me, one big advantage is that Flock has its own profile, and it can be run at the same time as Firefox.
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Postby richard mitnick » Sun 22 Jun, 2008 3:09 pm

Hi all you folks,

The FF3 problem with web mail email addresses has been solved. It was a simply caching problem, complicated by private data clearing. All now resolved.

Thanks for all of the help and suggestions.

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