Firefox downloads dialog
Posted: 2013-07-07 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: downloads, firefox Leave a commentI don’t like the new style downloads dialog in Firefox. Some googling pointed me to a solution. So, I opened the browser, typed about:config in the address bar and promised to be careful. After that I found the following line and set its value to true. Read the rest of this entry »
ndiswrapper and Ralink 2500
Posted: 2012-12-18 Filed under: network, system | Tags: ndiswrapper, rt2500 Leave a commentMy ancient laptop has a Ralink wireless card (RT2500). It has been supported out of the box for quite some time. Ironically, the wifi works somewhat better with the windows driver, when installed with ndiswrapper. Read the rest of this entry »
Fixing two major issues in Firefox
Posted: 2012-11-24 Filed under: network | Tags: firefox, new tab page, tabs Leave a commentI prefer Seamonkey, but sometimes I use Firefox, too. However, since some recent version, there are two things that I do not like — no easy way to put the tabs below the toolbar, as they used to be, and getting rid of the new tab page (completely). Read the rest of this entry »
Firefox PDF Viewer plugin
Posted: 2012-07-05 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: firefox, pdf, plugin 1 CommentIn Slackware64, even if the system is converted to multilib and Adobe Reader runs fine, there will still be problems for it to integrate into Firefox. A 64bit Firefox and 32bit Acrobat apparently do not work nicely together… Read the rest of this entry »
Seamonkey/Firefox Old Default Image Style
Posted: 2012-07-04 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: firefox, plugin, seamonkey Leave a commentI really hate the new default image style for Seamonkey and Firefox: background is forced to black and the image is centered. For example if I want to view some application icon from SBo that has shadow it all looks just wrong… Read the rest of this entry »
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