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Using a variant of Debian’s Iceweasel that keeps pace with Firefox

February 5, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

Left to its own devices, Debian will leave you with an ever ageing re-branded version of Firefox that was installed at the same time as the rest of the operating system. From what I have found, the main cause of [...]

Moving from Ubuntu 10.10 to Linux Mint 10

April 23, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

With a long Easter weekend available to me and with thoughts of forthcoming changes in the world of Ubuntu, I got to wondering about the merits of moving my main home PC to Linux Mint instead. Though there is a [...]

A faster Firefox?

October 9, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

I have been having problems with Firefox being sluggish so I resorted to a Lifehacker tip to see if that helped. It was a matter of opening up the Error Console from the Tols menu and entering the following long [...]

64-bit Firefox plugins?

May 26, 2009 1 Response Shortlink

My laptop has both Windows Vista and Ubuntu on there with WUBI being the facilitator of the peaceful coexistence. However, what I either forgot or never realised was that it was the 64-bit variant of Ubuntu 9.04 that has found [...]

Firefox 3, RealPlayer, Ubuntu and BBC’s iPlayer

June 17, 2008 4 Responses Shortlink

With the record attempt due today for Firefox 3 downloads, I thought that it would be a good time for me to update my advice for getting BBC’s iPlayer going in Firefox running on Ubuntu. First, you need RealPlayer 11 [...]

A different Firefox…

November 17, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

On Ubuntu, I made a move to using Ubuntuzilla‘s deployment of Firefox. Because Firefox’s Gecko engine is used by other parts of Ubuntu, any Firefox updates issued by Mozilla don’t come through straight away. The idea of using Ubuntuzilla is [...]

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