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13 years ago @ Messaging Add-ons - F1: sharing links even... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Messaging Add-ons - Announcing Thunderbird... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Gaming - Defy Gravity: Game On ... · 0 replies · +2 points
Yeah - WebSockets is problematic. Please note that not only Firefox but also Opera (and most likely all major WebKit browsers such as Chrome) disabled or will disable WebSockets until a security flaw in the underlying protocol is fixed (for more information see http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/12/security-flaws-force-firefox-opera-to-turn-off-websockets/ and the Wikipedia entry on Websockets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSockets).
Trust us - it's far from awesome and everyone at Mozilla is working very hard with the involved 3rd parties to revise the WebSockets stack to be secure and thus usable. As it stands at the moment, I would not expect WebSockets support in major browsers for the next round of releases.
If your game heavily depends on WebSockets, please note this in your submission - we'll find a way to make this work.
(By the way - we have a email address for the Game On contest: gameon@mozilla.com - you can find it on the Game On Contest website)
Warm regards
Pascal (Mozilla Labs)
13 years ago @ Gaming - Defy Gravity: Game On ... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Messaging Add-ons - Announcing Thunderbird... · 0 replies · +1 points
You also have to keep in mind that there still is the More > "View using the classic reader" menu item, that should allow you to fallback to the standard UI.
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13 years ago @ Messaging Add-ons - Experimental addon off... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Messaging Add-ons - Experimental addon off... · 0 replies · +2 points
The next steps are to get a couple more providers, hopefully a free one, but see my comments above about the issues with free providers. Once we get a couple more providers we'll likely have to change the interface to represent the greater number of choices available.
So far I'm thinking the choices should look like this:
Do you have an email? Yes / No
If Yes -> Auto Config
If No -> What kind of address do you want?
And from here I think we'll continue to ask for your name or some search terms for the username / domain name you're interested in. However our result list would likely be grouped by providers
Gmail (20+ available) - Free
joeuser39829@gmail.com
Yahoo (20+ available) - Free
joeuser83292@yahoo.com
Hover (10 available) - $20 / year
joeuser@joe.com
Each provider giving a rough number of possible results with the likely total cost and a preview of the top result. When you choose a provider we expand those results to browse and you could go back up to the top list or do a new search at anytime.
Anyway, that's the likely direction we'll go in assuming we can bring in more providers. Again I'd really love to hear ideas about how free providers could be integrated with Thunderbird. It's important to think of the free providers concerns for giving away email and having no contact (page views) with the user at all, while at the same time providing a more valuable experience to Thunderbird users. Kind of a hard problem...
13 years ago @ Messaging Add-ons - Experimental addon off... · 1 reply · -1 points
And some users aren't going to want to pay for an email address and we are working with free email address providers to get an API to create an email address through them. However free email isn't actually "free". The free providers rely on page views (ads) to pay for their free service and so it's harder for them to create an API that avoids their pages. Obviously this is possible with some services like gmail but their IMAP support was really added to allow for iPhone users to access their gmail accounts and they still expect people to use their web based interface.
I'm looking for ideas on how we could create a mutually beneficial relationship with these free providers. Any ideas people have on that would be really helpful. Things like changing the start page to be the email providers page might work. But there must be other ways that people would get a benefit from having better integration. And just to note, we are Mozilla, so obviously anything we do here isn't in the direction of locking Thunderbird users into a single provider; our mission is to encourage choice. Things like changing the start page to my yahoo page would still be an option for the user but might be a default we provide.
13 years ago @ Messaging Add-ons - F1: sharing links even... · 0 replies · +1 points
The latest release of the F1 add-on provides the F1 key as a shortcut to open the share tool.
13 years ago @ Messaging Add-ons - Announcing Thunderbird... · 0 replies · +1 points
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