Ok so far I am really liking this gadget. Its a pretty lousy media player (software sucks so far) but its an AWESOME internet device.

Gecko Browser OS2008 I need some upgrades. Is this possible.

Are Extensions like in firefox possible?

Getting to bookmarks is annoying is there a plugin to make this easier?

A way to "force" more sites to let me remember credentials?

A way to make passwords VISIBLE as I type them (critical without an actual keyboard) the extension for firefox is wonderful. Only makes them visible when I click that entry box. works great. Can I do this on the N800 ?

How bout ELIMINATING the horizontal scroll bar all together (making the vertical thinner would be nice too)

its a waste of space. its always there 99% of the time so I just want it gone I can always grab and drag the page side to side if I need to.

Ad Blocking? (ESPECIALLY one I start going over BT with the cell phone)

Thanks!
Chris Taylor

1. Yes - that is, there have been updates, but as of now there is no newer MicroB version than that in the OS2008 release.

2. Not quite like in Firefox - MicroB must do without XUL for memory consumption and performance reasons, so that extensions ported to MicroB need a different, hand-coded GUI. But there already are Greasemonkey, Adblock Plus and Dictionary addons.

3. Sure, but nobody has done that so far - and as existing extensions tend to rely on large screens, mouse and keyboard handling, they are no better than the existing panel. Anything better would have to be done from scratch.

4. That is up to the sites - the IT brower does it as good as any desktop browser, that is, it can remember the values of two-piece text field/password forms. As password entry is more clumsy with the pen, dealing with non-standard login schemes would be desirable. But short of individual per-site solutions or complete form savers there is nothing to be done about them - and neither will be particularily practicable.

5. Something like that should already exist as greasemonkey script. Of course, it has a security tradeoff.

6. Can't be eliminated entirely, thanks to the majority of resolution-dependent sites
which won't scale gently.

7. Adblock Plus has already been ported.

cool where are these pluginss located? especially adblock :-)

also for h scroll i do not mean get rid of in html i mean force the browser to not display it at all ever. it a useless annoying waste of limited screen space

in firefox there are extensions to disable 'no remember' javascript codes that some sites use to stop remember password from working though so far it seems to be able to remember almost all of them

In the browser-extras repository.

And cut off all page estate to the right? It would only be possible if all pages could either be resized to fit the screen (which they can't, short of zooming them out to illegibility), or if bar scrolling were replaced by finger scrolling (which has its share of problems on link lists or highly active ajax pages, where there is no place to put your finger on without triggering an action - the iPhone only gets away with it through its multitouch panel).

That probably can be done once NoScript gets ported - which I'll do sooner or later if nobody else comes up with it...

?? you an DRAG the page around just by tapping and holding pretty much any location on the page so no its just a waste of space :-) you would not lose any of the right portion of any pages.

I would still just like it gone. I have yet to visit a single page where it was needed. the right side if anything is usually just full of ads anyway :-) on the one in a zillion page where I for some reason need it I can just turn it back on.

its the only real dissappointement of the device the 480piel height. I really wish they had used an 800x600 screen Its a minor thing in the bigger scheme of things but it would have been nice :-)

"In the browser-extras repository" which means absolutely nothing to me hehehe :-) but when I did a search for adblock one of the threads eventually had a link to the "browser-extras repository" Not sure how someone is supposed to find tht on there own though ? :-)

I apprecite the responses !! adblok made things SO much better. Made browsing NOTICABLY faster!!

Another extension that would be nice to have? Screengrab. Whenever I make payments I alwys screenie the reciept. This is the first device that lets me to literally anything online. ALL the banking sites etc.. work. Fantastic :-)

Any non-active location. On a growing number of ajax pages there ain't no such thing, and it would need a iPhone-like multitouch-sensitive screen to discriminate between point-click and page grab gestures.

you can always use the 4 way controller too. Even the 810 has that does it not.

Either way I am not sure why we are arguing. An option is just that. You can leave it on I can turn it off. I personally hate it. I already have a limited 480 pixels and another 30-40 being taken up by this scroll bar that 99% of the time is only there for the 10 pixels of screen space past the right edge of the screen (IE the space occupied by the dada VERTICAL scroll bar :-) so the V bar "causes" the need for the H bar :-) hehehe

I have not yet encountered a page where I could not grab and drag but I can easily see the situation you describe happening. So just use the 4way OR don't turn off your H bar. I would just like the option :-)

Chris Taylor