... and it charges less of a fee than paypal, so that's all good.

-mouser (March 13, 2009, 05:45 PM)

Is it possible to list the fees or an estimate on the Payment Method page, or does that break their TOS?

Without that knowledge I'd probably pick Paypal, but knowing you'd get more from the same amount if I used Amazon would immediately change my mind.

Assuming you're behind an ISA proxy that is using NTLM authentication, it does seem to be difficult to support.  That's my situation at work and it seems to be extremely difficult to find information about supporting that situation properly.  Google App Engine lacks NTLM support as well and it has been a constant source of headaches for me.

What I've been doing is using a Python loopback proxy called NTLM Authorization Proxy Server.

You set up NTLM-APS on your machine with the NTLM credentials, and then in all those programs that don't support NTLM you tell them to use NTLM-APS as their proxy.  It will handle all the NTLM authentication with the ISA proxy, pass the traffic back and forth just fine, and those programs should act like they were using a proxy that didn't require NTLM authentication.

This seems to work pretty well in most cases and even though a GAE update caused it to no longer meet my original needs, I still use it for a few other programs.  Though, I haven't tried it with Google Earth/Update.


Granted, if it's not NTLM or you're unable to install Python, this is all pretty useless for you.  :P

What I find foolish is the folks blaming Mozilla. How are they supposed to check every little update that comes along? I think some of the responsibility lies with the users.

-raybeere (January 16, 2009, 05:02 PM)

Ultimately I'd say that all the blame lies on the users for being too trusting of the extension developers, but part of the problem is Mozilla encourages the users to trust these possibly nefarious developers.  Sure they warn you about the dangers, but I think the majority of people would agree that a big part of why they use and stick with Firefox is because of the extensions.  You hear this quite often from people evaluating Opera or Chrome.. "I like it - but until it has extensions...."


My criticism of Mozilla, is that the system (like so many others) is set up to alert you that there's a new version, but it doesn't really provide the means of showing/viewing a change log or release notes.  Their own dialog for upgrading Firefox is a little better with providing a link to such information, but it could still be improved.