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Sorry to sound like a stupid question but have... 5,953 Views / 13 Replies  
Sorry to sound like a stupid question but have you checked your preferences settings? On my system iDVD 4 allows selecting Best Quality or Best Performance for the encoder settings. Unfortunately...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 20, 2004 at 01:31 AM, in Applications
In the standalone Compressor with DVD Studio Pro... 5,953 Views / 13 Replies  
In the standalone Compressor with DVD Studio Pro you can adjust the compression levels and whether it's 1 or 2 pass. I'm guessing in iDVD 4 they've got it hard coded to 2 pass to keep the quality...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 19, 2004 at 10:31 PM, in Applications
The hidden window is an artifact of the Mozilla architecture 865 Views / 5 Replies  
In Mozilla the menu bar is assoicated with a window. So that there will be a functional menu bar when all visible Mozilla windows are closed a hidden window is created to be associated with the...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 21, 2003 at 01:47 AM, in Applications
Create a text file that begins with the text... 621 Views / 13 Replies  
Create a text file that begins with the text "ARGS:" (no quotes) and then put the command line arguments you want to pass to Mozilla after it and end the line with a carriage return. Launch Mozilla...
Posted by sdagley, on Oct 6, 2003 at 06:23 PM, in Applications
Nope. The Sosumi sound was originally called... 1,776 Views / 33 Replies  
Nope. The Sosumi sound was originally called Xylophone and is just a note played on one. Apparently this was identified as an example of Apple Computer being in the music biz when Apple Records...
Posted by sdagley, on May 2, 2003 at 10:29 AM, in Applications
Mozilla never creates or modifies the user.js... 648 Views / 3 Replies  
Mozilla never creates or modifies the user.js file. If yours is gone you'll have to re-create it yourself.
Posted by sdagley, on Mar 31, 2003 at 03:26 PM, in Applications
The name Camino� has nothing to do with Netscape... 889 Views / 5 Replies  
The name Camino� has nothing to do with Netscape company policy, we were forced to change when the folks that did the original Chimera browser for X decided they didn't want us to keep using the...
Posted by sdagley, on Mar 4, 2003 at 12:35 AM, in Applications
Re: What's Up With Chimera? 1,287 Views / 15 Replies  
How do you figure two months w/o change? The last checkin was on February 19th which has been a while but it's certainly less than 2 months. If you download the current nightly build you'll...
Posted by sdagley, on Feb 27, 2003 at 01:58 AM, in Applications
Re: Chimera and New York Times 681 Views / 5 Replies  
Have you upgraded to version 6.0r67 of the Flash plugin? Older versions are known to crash Chimera.
Posted by sdagley, on Feb 23, 2003 at 06:11 PM, in Applications
OfflineRT is simply a reduced res but time... 1,080 Views / 5 Replies  
OfflineRT is simply a reduced res but time accurate preview/placeholder version of the video you'll eventually use to complete your project. It isn't, or at least I understand it isn't, suitable for...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 26, 2003 at 01:35 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
We ran out of disk space uploading the build. ... 579 Views / 4 Replies  
We ran out of disk space uploading the build. Should be fixed now.
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 22, 2003 at 03:02 AM, in Applications
Poll: Just a few random comments to toss out: 1)... 2,215 Views / 39 Replies  
Just a few random comments to toss out:

1) As some folks have noticed Pinkerton's latest blog entry is somewhat less doom & gloomy. If you knew Mike you might know why we sometimes compare him to...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 22, 2003 at 03:01 AM, in Applications
Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5: Change email server 534 Views / 2 Replies  
Communicator 4.5 doesn't support multiple e-mail accounts. I'd suggest you install Netscape 7.01 which should import the user's 4.x profile and will allow multiple e-mail accounts. Or at least...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 20, 2003 at 10:47 PM, in Applications
Re: Re: Re: Help Netscape 7.0 Window Disappeared 614 Views / 4 Replies  
I don't know the details of what the bug was but it was something with saving a bogus window position after hitting the window zoom widget. It has since been fixed in the Mozilla code base but...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 5, 2003 at 01:48 AM, in Applications
Re: Help Netscape 7.0 Window Disappeared 614 Views / 4 Replies  
With Netscape 7.0 _not_ running, delete the file localstore.rdf in your profile folder. The path will be something like "~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/<Profile Name>/<random>.slt/localstore.rdf".
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 4, 2003 at 07:32 PM, in Applications
If a site crashes Chimera repeatedly please file... 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
If a site crashes Chimera repeatedly please file a bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org or make a note of the site that crashed when you file the Talkback report on the crash. You _do_ have the latest Flash...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 2, 2003 at 04:48 AM, in Applications
If you're using a build that opens a seperate... 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
If you're using a build that opens a seperate window for each download in progress then closing a window cancels the download associated with that window. The newer builds have the "download...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 2, 2003 at 04:28 AM, in Applications
You can assign a keyword to a bookmark which can... 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
You can assign a keyword to a bookmark which can be used as a shortcut in the location field. Adding a search of all bookmarks for URL autocompletion sounds like a useful enhancment though. You...
Posted by sdagley, on Jan 1, 2003 at 09:41 PM, in Applications
Re: Re: Re: Entourage and AOL? 725 Views / 4 Replies  
Mozilla cannot directly access AOL mail accounts the same way Netscape 7 can. That functionality requires the AIM component of Netscape 7 which is not distributed with Mozilla.
Posted by sdagley, on Dec 31, 2002 at 02:56 AM, in Applications
How to write CSS that works in more than one browser 5,797 Views / 131 Replies  
For web developers that seem to think that you can't create a CSS styled website that looks right in both IE and Gecko based browsers I'd suggest reading, and learning from, this book:
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Posted by sdagley, on Dec 30, 2002 at 05:30 PM, in Applications
Yes, and before we do another milestone release. 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
Yes, and before we do another milestone release.
Posted by sdagley, on Dec 30, 2002 at 05:03 PM, in Applications
The reason we asked people to start using the... 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
The reason we asked people to start using the 12/20 nightly build is that we've made lots of changes since the 0.6 release yet most folks are still using 0.6 rather than the nightly builds and...
Posted by sdagley, on Dec 24, 2002 at 08:42 PM, in Applications
Please log a bug on the download component of... 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
Please log a bug on the download component of Chimera at bugzilla.mozilla.org. Be sure to cite specific examples of downloads that display this problem. No such bug has been logged before AFAIK so...
Posted by sdagley, on Dec 11, 2002 at 12:15 PM, in Applications
That won't happen until after Chimera 1.0. 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
That won't happen until after Chimera 1.0.
Posted by sdagley, on Dec 9, 2002 at 04:20 PM, in Applications
This should work as of today's (12/06/02) build. ... 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
This should work as of today's (12/06/02) build. If it doesn't the OS doesn't think you've really set Preview as the default app for PDF files. And why aren't you using the PDF Browser Plugin? :) ...
Posted by sdagley, on Dec 6, 2002 at 02:17 PM, in Applications
Re: Downloads pref pane 10,951 Views / 209 Replies  
It's a new tab in the Navigation pref pane.
Posted by sdagley, on Dec 6, 2002 at 12:41 PM, in Applications
Re: Re: Pronunciation 1,752 Views / 27 Replies  
Actually Justin was closer to the 'official' internal pronunciation which is Kai-mare-uh.
Posted by sdagley, on Dec 1, 2002 at 06:33 PM, in Applications
There is a pref to automatically mount disk... 2,886 Views / 53 Replies  
There is a pref to automatically mount disk images after decompression in StuffIt Expander. Note that this is generally a bad idea as it's possible to have something on the disk automatically run...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 21, 2002 at 09:45 PM, in Applications
This is enabled only if you've set the pref which... 2,886 Views / 53 Replies  
This is enabled only if you've set the pref which doesn't yet have any UI in the Chimera preferences panes. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169044#c5 for info on how to set the pref...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 20, 2002 at 09:40 PM, in Applications
Re: Scroll acceleration in Chimera? 873 Views / 8 Replies  
Chimera _does_ use the scroll acceleration feature added in Mac OS X 10.2 but it's smoothed to what I consider is a reasonable rate. Without that smoothing Chimera scrolling was incredibly jumpy and...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 20, 2002 at 10:57 AM, in Applications
I'm 100% sure it does :) 726 Views / 4 Replies  
I'm 100% sure it does :)
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 20, 2002 at 10:49 AM, in Applications
You should never edit prefs.js by hand. So it... 973 Views / 17 Replies  
You should never edit prefs.js by hand. So it sez at the top of the prefs.js file for those that never bother to read it. Any pref you need to add or override for Chimera/Mozilla/Netscape should be...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 19, 2002 at 04:16 PM, in Applications
That's an interesting version of the history but... 1,200 Views / 16 Replies  
That's an interesting version of the history but not very accurate. I'm not going to correct every error but I'll mention a few:

Mosaic wasn't the first graphical web browser. Not even for the...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 18, 2002 at 01:12 PM, in Applications
Re: chimera downloading problems 729 Views / 7 Replies  
We need specific download URLs that exhibit this problem as we've never duplicated it internally. If you can reliably reproduce the problem please file a bug at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org or send...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 14, 2002 at 11:17 PM, in Applications
The problem with mpg/mpeg movies not playing... 5,451 Views / 113 Replies  
The problem with mpg/mpeg movies not playing internal to Chimera is because we're not picking up the mpeg mime types from the QuickTime plugin. This should be fixed late next week.
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 14, 2002 at 11:10 PM, in Applications
Adaptec 39160 problems under OS X? 517 Views / 0 Replies  
I just got an Adaptec 39160 card and a Maxtor Atlas 10K Ultra160 SCSI drive. Under OS X sustained writes to the card have a tendency to hang OS X. Not kernel panic, just apparently wedging the I/O...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 8, 2002 at 12:27 AM, in Mac Desktops
For anyone that's experiencing download problems... 767 Views / 10 Replies  
For anyone that's experiencing download problems with Chimera please try the latest nightly build and see if it solves them. This includes the problem where downloading a file that ends in .gz would...
Posted by sdagley, on Nov 3, 2002 at 06:09 PM, in Applications
I'd be willing to bet that Adobe is one of the... 822 Views / 18 Replies  
I'd be willing to bet that Adobe is one of the primary reasons Apple now publicly states that Cocoa and Carbon are peers (done several times at the 2002 WWDC). Look at it from Adobe's standpoint,...
Posted by sdagley, on Oct 25, 2002 at 08:51 PM, in Applications
Re: Re: Re: Netscape hurts Mozilla 792 Views / 8 Replies  
We're working on being able to launch w/o always getting the prompt when you have more than 1 profile. That might not help you though as you're still asking for Mozilla and Netscape builds to treat...
Posted by sdagley, on Oct 25, 2002 at 08:35 PM, in Applications
Re: Netscape hurts Mozilla 792 Views / 8 Replies  
Yes, you're missing something in that the back-end code in Netscape 7.0 is Mozilla. As developers we want them to be able to use the same preferences as it makes testing easier. If you're using the...
Posted by sdagley, on Oct 23, 2002 at 02:11 PM, in Applications
Not true. Look at the fixes that have gone into... 1,179 Views / 19 Replies  
Not true. Look at the fixes that have gone into FizzillaMach in the past month and you'll see it's starting to get some TLC. To name a few: FizzillaCFM profiles can be used, file dialogs work so...
Posted by sdagley, on Oct 17, 2002 at 06:07 PM, in Applications
A simpler, less drastic fix 695 Views / 3 Replies  
Should you run into this problem in the future the much simpler and less drastic fix is to remove the file named 'lock' created in your Chimera profile directory. The path to which would be:...
Posted by sdagley, on Sep 18, 2002 at 12:31 PM, in Applications
That's a bit drastic. Usually just deleting the... 993 Views / 13 Replies  
That's a bit drastic. Usually just deleting the localstore.rdf file in your profile folder will do the trick. It can be found in the path:...
Posted by sdagley, on Sep 18, 2002 at 12:21 PM, in Applications
No, profiles (where prefs and bookmarks are... 15,473 Views / 279 Replies  
No, profiles (where prefs and bookmarks are stored) aren't migrated when upgrading from the 0.3 to 0.4 builds of Chimera. They're still on your drive though unless you manually deleted your...
Posted by sdagley, on Aug 28, 2002 at 05:28 PM, in Applications
Actually if this started happening after a crash... 15,473 Views / 279 Replies  
Actually if this started happening after a crash when running Chimera all that should be needed is to remove the file named 'Lock' buried in the ~/Library/Application Support/Chimera folder. That's...
Posted by sdagley, on Aug 28, 2002 at 05:21 PM, in Applications
Re: Internet prefs bug in Jag? 554 Views / 2 Replies  
Actually it's LaunchServices doing the adding of the apps to its database. Any browser that lists a CFBundleURLType for http in their Info.plist will appear as a choice for default web browser in...
Posted by sdagley, on Aug 28, 2002 at 05:11 PM, in Applications
Chimera Meta Bug... 15,473 Views / 279 Replies  
Chimera Meta Bug (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147975) is the bug that tracks the issues that we've flagged as being important to Chimera. Not that they're all Chimera specific,...
Posted by sdagley, on Aug 27, 2002 at 01:50 AM, in Applications
Nightly builds are back. Actually we were... 15,473 Views / 279 Replies  
Nightly builds are back. Actually we were reorganizing the files just because it was a mess having everything Chimera related in one directory. The ProjectBuilder 2.0 fun comes later. Or maybe...
Posted by sdagley, on Aug 23, 2002 at 12:55 PM, in Applications
That's the plan but right now it's looking like... 15,473 Views / 279 Replies  
That's the plan but right now it's looking like it'll be sometime after 1.2 before we can make the switch.



No opinion until I see it on the Mac. I don't think anyone would consider their old...
Posted by sdagley, on Aug 23, 2002 at 12:48 PM, in Applications
Apps for OS X are either built as CFM or mach-o... 15,473 Views / 279 Replies  
Apps for OS X are either built as CFM or mach-o binaries. Mozilla for Mac OS X, as it currently ships, is a CFM binary and is built with CodeWarrior 7. Chimera is a mach-o binary built with the gcc...
Posted by sdagley, on Aug 21, 2002 at 09:29 PM, in Applications
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