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I’ve hit a dilemma on a project I’m working on. I want to create a panel similar to the new bookmark and identity panels. The panel has an iframe in it to display web pages. I want the panel to be movable, resizable and animated (similar to the alert slider). This isn’t very easy to do with the panel element. To get around the difficulties in trying to meet these requirements I decided to use a window that is a dependent window without any titlebar or chrome. This seemed like a good way to implement it and the animation looks really good. However, I’ve now hit a road block that I do not know how to get around. The iframe displays correctly on Mac and Linux, but a bug on Windows causes it not to be displayed.

So now I’m stuck with the question of how to get this implementation done. Do I try and figure out how to get the panel animated and resizable or do I try to work around the Windows bug that is causing the iframe to not be displayed?

These are the kind of issues that sometimes make working with XUL a real pain. Do you have any suggestion on how to get this working? Do you have similar pains that I may be able to help with?

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The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. It’s time to spotlight the biggest improvements that will make “Gran Paradiso” the browser to beat.

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The developers of Firefox, a web browser created by the Mozilla Foundation, have decided to once again rescue the masses from the horrors of the Internet. Having produced top-notch phishing protection, malware identification and other security features unmatched by their competitors they are now introducing the “Rickroll Detection Filter.”

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Chris Finke’s newest post 7 ways to be a better developer is a look at 7 things you can do to be a successful Firefox extension developer. I can’t agree more with the points he is making. I might also add to list: “8. Grow a thick skin”. If you extension has a lot of users you will get some positive feedback, but you will probably get a lot more negative feedback.

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Lilmatt posted recently about Making good on a promise. zbraniecki followed up with a post on not-invented-here syndrome. I just wanted to comment.

Since we are ending support of Netscape Navigator, we have been working on migrating users. We’ve been working with both Mozilla and Flock in migrating our users to their products. Even with all parties having competing products based on the same code base, I have not witnessed any animosity between these two groups in my dealings. They have been very cooperative.

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Few Security Fixes

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When the suite was king, Mozilla decided to create a runtime environment called the GRE (Gecko Runtime Environment). This was going to be a shared platform for building Gecko based applications. The decision was made to stop working on the suite and move to individual applications, Firefox and Thunderbird. The original plan was to have these applications running on top of the GRE. Eventually, that idea was dropped as well and instead the GRE was statically compiled in. Mozilla then decided to create the XULRunner as a platform to build Firefox and Thunderbird on top of. Yesterday, this was scrapped as well.

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Update: Benjamin Smedberg has a post that helps clarify Mozilla’s stance on the subject.

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We’ve released netstripe for Firefox. Netstripe is the default theme for Netscape 9. Checkout the blog post about it.

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Over at Penguin Pete’s Blog, he has a post titled “10 Signs you’ve been using Firefox too log.” It’s cool that using Forecastfox made the number one slot

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Mark Finkle has a new version of his XUL Explorer application. This version has some big improvements over his last version, and he has given me credit for the live preview feature. This is well worth checking out if you are an XUL hacker.

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