Archive for the tag "firefox"
Setting up your own Mozilla Sync server
Last sunday was not a good weekend, from a software usability point of view. I had not worked with the laptop (running 64-bit Slackware-current) for a few days and thought I’d do some preparation work for the upcoming KDE release (you know, checking out if any dependencies needed adding or updating, build script checks and [...]
Posted: 31 August, 2011 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: firefox, python, sync, weave
Comments: 6
Dumping google toolbar
Well, I guess it is time to dump good old Google Toolbar. In a previous post of mine, I showed you how to allow Firefox to keep using the Google Toolbar even though it lists as “unsupported” since firefox-5. But this is not a long-term option of course – at some point the plugin will [...]
Posted: 30 July, 2011 in Me, Rant, Software.
Tags: firefox, google, toolbar
Comments: 8
Flash crashes Firefox on x86_64
Some people have reported that on 64-bit Slackware, and after installing Adobe’s 64-bit Flash plugin, their Firefox crashes with an “illegal instruction” error when it loads a page containing flash video (like Youtube)… I never had this issue, and for a lot of other people, flash works fine as well. However, the mystery remained until [...]
Posted: 2 January, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: adobe, crash, firefox, flash, lahf_lm, mozilla, x86_64
Comments: 4