Warpzilla - Mozilla for OS/2

In Firefox 2.0, every tab has a close button. If you wish to restore the old behavior, set "browser.tabs.closeButtons" to 3. Script Timeouts If you have problems with some Javascript taking too long and hogging CPU cycles, you can shorten the amount of time it takes for the "cancel script" dialog to appear. You can change the "dom.max_script_run_time" and "dom.max_chrome_script_run_time" values to the number of seconds you wish to allow before the dialog appears, where the first option is for scripts on web pages, and the second option is for scripts in the user interface (including extensions!). Bookmarks Warpzilla switched to using a SQLite database for bookmarks, rather than the standard bookmarks.html file. It is possible to automatically import and export your bookmarks.html file at startup and shutdown, albeit with some minor caveats. SQLite SQLite databases, as used in Warpzilla, can have a tendency to grow excessively large. You can use the SQLite Browser to "vacuum" (compact) the *.sqlite database files in your profile, while the browser is closed; this will improve runtime performance. The "Places" database can also be compacted within Warpzilla, using the Error Console. Another option is the UPSSV package. Icons If you don't like the icons in Mozilla 1.1 and above, you can change them by replacing the files in the chrome\icons directory. There are some icon packs available, but people have reported problems getting them to work in OS/2. Klaus Staedtler has created an icon package which uses the default icons, but is correctly scaled for OS/2.
You can get icons for more windows by putting in icons with these filenames: commonDialog.ico, profileWindow.ico, and default.ico

Phil Parker has created some Firebird icons based on the flame design found on the Firebird web site. With a little prodding, he also produced two more icons for us; one of the Firebird icon found on the Mozilla beta web site, and one found on a recent Stardock screenshot. Note that OS/2 icons are not viewable in Mozilla, save them to disk to see them! There are some Firefox icons on Hobbes as well. FavIcons Mozilla has a GUI-configurable option for "web site icons" but there is also a hidden option for favicon support (non-standard IE style), which defaults to off. To enable favicon support, use this option:
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons", true);

You can also enable site icons in your bookmarks menu, by setting this option:
user_pref("browser.chrome.load_toolbar_icons", 2); Cursors You can check out the support for CSS cursor styles on this sample page Throbbers You can change the throbber in Mozilla by creating a chrome\userChrome.css file in your profile. It should contain the following:

#navigator-throbber
{
list-style-image : url("animthrob_single.gif") !important;
}
#navigator-throbber[busy="true"]
{
list-style-image : url("animthrob.gif") !important;
}

You can also take a look at prefbar which has a menu of several options for this. Menu Movement If you don't like the mouse following the menus, you can add a delay to slow it down:
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 7000);
or stop it from happening:
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", -1); Spring-loaded folders Spring-loaded folders have been in Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups for some time. Simply attempt a Drag&Drop operation on a closed folder tree, hovering the mouse over the visible parent folder; the tree will drop open, allowing you to select the proper subfolder for filing the message. The "normal" behavior is for the folder tree to then remain open, but it is easy to enable the auto-close of such "sprung" folders with the following addition to prefs.js:
user_pref("ui.treeCloseDelay", 1000);

Other aspects of spring-loaded folders can also be tweaked; the defaults are:
user_pref("ui.treeOpenDelay", 1000);
user_pref("ui.treeLazyScrollDelay", 150);
user_pref("ui.treeScrollDelay", 100);
user_pref("ui.treeScrollLinesMax", 3);
Reply header You can easily change the default reply header for mail and news messages to include the date of the original message, or anything else you would like it to have. user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 2); is a nicer default; see Mozillazine for more options. Reply quoting Thunderbird 3.x and SeaMonkey 2.x will quote just the selected portion of a message when you reply to it. You can disable this feature:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_quoting_selection", false); MailNews folder sorting SeaMonkey defaults to having the newest messages in a folder at the bottom, but you can change it to have the newest messages at the top by default:
user_pref("mailnews.default_sort_order", 1); // for Mail/RSS
user_pref("mailnews.default_news_sort_order", 1); // for News Max Connections You can try increasing the maximum persistent connections per server; this reportedly can speed up page loading significantly on some sites.
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8); Protocols It is now possible to define your own protocols, so that you can launch anything you want from Warpzilla. For instance, to edit your Config.Sys file in the EPM editor with the URL "epm:C:\Config.Sys" you would add these settings:
user_pref("applications.epm", "c:\\os2\\apps\\epm.exe");
user_pref("applications.epm.parameters", "%url%");

Warpzilla now has the "telnet:" protocol built-in to os2pref.js, which runs telnetpm. Mailcap You can customize the MIME information used by Mozilla. A mime.types file maps the MIME types to file extensions, while the mailcap file specifies the helper applications to launch for a given MIME type. Add these lines:
user_pref("helpers.global_mailcap_file", "X:\\HOME\\mailcap");
user_pref("helpers.global_mime_types_file", "X:\\HOME\\mime.types");
user_pref("helpers.private_mailcap_file", "X:\\HOME\\.mailcap");
user_pref("helpers.private_mime_types_file", "X:\\HOME\\.mime.types");

Then create the corresponding files. You can see an example mailcap file, which should give you the idea. You can find a comprehensive mime.types file with web server (Apache) or Linux distributions. Cookies Firefox 2.0 removed the option of only allowing cookies from the originating web site. You can restore this behavior with this setting:
user_pref("network.cookie.cookieBehavior", 1); Mail notification There is an undocumented way to get a new mail indicator on WarpCenter, which is now hooked up to Mozilla as of version 1.1. You can configure it as follows:

1. Create an icon on your desktop with an object ID of <CCINBOX>, using this REXX code:

/* */
call RxFuncAdd 'SysCreateObject', 'RexxUtil', 'SysCreateObject'
result = SysCreateObject('WPProgram', 'Mozilla Mail', '<WP_DESKTOP>', 'OBJECTID=<CCINBOX>');

2. Add the mail icons to your WarpCenter; you need Resource Manager and NewMail.Zip. Unzip both of these files into a temporary directory, and make a copy of your \OS2\DLL\SCENTER.DLL there. To add the icons, run this command:

resmgr -a scenter.dll scenter.res

3. Once you reboot, your Warpcenter should have a mail icon. There is a mailtest.exe application in NewMail.Zip, which can be used to test the functionality outside of Mozilla.

If you want to customize the icons, edit mail.bmp or newmail.bmp, then run the resource compiler to recreate scenter.res.

There is a REXX script for integrating PMMail with Mozilla and an executable version of similar function

To have Firefox open Thunderbird when clicking on a mailto: link using the Run! utility, you can use these preferences:
user_pref("applications.mailto", "X:\\path\\to\\thunderbird\\thunderbird!l.exe");
user_pref("applications.mailto.parameters", "-compose");
Running Multiple Versions Concurrently You can only run Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time if they are the same version (or more accurately, built from the same code), due to the way the OS/2 kernel loads DLLs. If you wish to run builds from different code levels, use Internet Application Integration to set up Run!.

You can run multiple versions of SeaMonkey (i.e. debug and release versions) at the same time, as long as you are careful. You must use different profiles for each version, and use Run! or a little script to start it (such as seaMonkey.cmd):

 SET MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
 SET LIBPATHSTRICT=T
 SET MOZILLA_HOME=<profile_path>
 SET PATH=<mozilla_directory>;%PATH%
 SET BEGINLIBPATH=<mozilla_directory>
 seamonkey.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5

MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 keeps Mozilla from creating the parent message window, so two Mozilla's can no longer detect that each other is running. LIBPATHSTRICT=T forces DLLs to be loaded from the correct place, instead of using what is already in memory (this feature requires a recent OS/2 kernel). These pre-made mozcall scripts may be useful. Search Tip You can use the Bookmark Keyword feature to create a shortcut to your favorite search engine, for example, you could just type "imdb star wars" in the Location Bar to look up "Star Wars" on the Internet Movie Database. To do this:

1. Make a search on your favorite search engine (in this example, IMDB).
2. When results appear, bookmark the page.
3. Go to Bookmark Manager. Select the bookmark and press Properties
4. In the Location text box locate the terms you typed for the search and replace them with %s (for IMDB it will look like http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s).
5. Set the keyword to your preference (for example "imdb", without quotes)
6. Now you can make searches from the location bar by just entering the keyword followed by the search terms!

Preferences Toolbar adds a toolbar for quickly changing the settings for custom fonts and colours, images, and Javascript.

mycroft is a list of search plugins for Mozilla, and instructions for writing your own (like a nice Hobbes search). There's also some FireFox search plugins for use with Google (images, news groups, and news), commTalk software archive, Leo German/English dictionary, and Hobbes.

Bookmarklets are some nice little Javascript utilities for dealing with annoying web pages

Form History Control gives you a nice interface to manage saved form field data. Problematic Extensions You can start Warpzilla with all extensions disabled (and using the default theme) by using the "-safe-mode" command line parameter. Then you can uninstall any problematic extensions and/or themes. Corrupted Interface If there is something wrong with your user interface, there are a few things you can try.