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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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This gem of a site details how to mod Firefox to take full advantage of the screenspace available today’s widescreen displays. You’ll need to install the TabMix Plus extension, and drop in the author’s userChrome.css in your /.mozilla/
/chrome/ file. This is by far one of coolest and most useful userChrome.css modifications I’ve seen.
How do you [...]

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