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Archive for the 'Firefox' Category

Moonlight Lets You Have Sliverlight Content On Linux

I just read at Lifehacker that Moonlight (the open source answer to Microsoft’s version of Flash) version 1.0 is released. I think this is cool, as we are beginning to see a few websites implementing  Microsoft Silverlight technology–and it’s never fun to be left out.
That being said, I personally haven’t ever had occasion to visit [...]

Tell The Internet What to Do with Mozilla’s Command Line Interface Ubiquity

Yeah, it seems pretty awesome, especially for us Linux geeks. Sure, GNOME-DO, Deskbar, and even some of the venerable terminal emulators have hooks into the web, but this new offering from Mozilla takes things to a new level.
Those perceptive folks at Mozilla labs have assessed (correctly, IMHO) that the web is no longer mostly full [...]

Firefox 3 Out of Beta in the Hardy Repositories, I Still Miss Extensions

Just pulled down Firefox 3.0 (Release Candidate 1) from the Hardy Heron Ubuntu repos this morning. Nice to have it out of beta. I’m still missing some important extensions that haven’t updated for Firefox 3.0, though, most notably Commentful, Greasemonkey, and FireFTP.
The Commentful extension is a great tool for tracking comments on various blogs. [...]

Build Bibliographies, Take Notes, Capture The Web…with Zotero

Many of you on Twitter know I’ve been working on a 20 page research paper for one of my graduate classes. Before I started, I discovered a fantastic tool for building your bibliography of sources: Zotero.
This extension for Firefox allows you to build a bibliography from sites you visit. Certain scholarly sites are even [...]

Flash is Installed, But Doesn’t Work in User Accounts in Firefox

Do you have more than one user account on your Ubuntu Linux desktop? Have you noticed that Flash doesn’t work on your non-administrator account? Well, I did. My main account (and root account) worked fine, but in my wife’s user account, Flash just didn’t work, even though it was installed. I removed the package, reinstalled, [...]