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Tor: Vidalia Tor software exited unexpectedly
Filed in tutorials, 06/05/2012, 11:56With the latest developments in internet censorship I too have been looking for secure alternatives and the Tor project is one of them but unfortunately I had a small problem with Vidalia, the software GUI for Tor. I discovered a solution after some reading and Google-ing. After installing Tor on ubuntu or other Debian based [...]
Reclaim partial select in firefox
Filed in post, 28/12/2010, 19:15In the windows version of Firefox you can select a single word of your address, in ubuntu it’s been changed and here’s the fix: type: ‘about:config’ in your address-bar and click that you’ll be careful with the settings search for: ‘browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll’ and double click it You don’t have to relaunch Firefox for the browser to [...]
Reclaim Ubuntu firefox backspace key
Filed in post, 07/11/2010, 14:59Firefox and every other browser on windows features a ‘previous page hotkey’, the backspace key alas the fact that firefox on ubuntu isn’t as feature rich, so here a work around: Go to “about:config”, you know to inspect the sqllite db firefox stores everything in. `Filter` for ‘browser.backspace_action’ and change its value to 0 (zero). [...]
Ubuntu just go better
Filed in post, , 14:12All my coding is done on linux, on the ubuntu distro which isn’t always that nice for portables i might add. Gnome bugs me much for it’s problem to properly control the brightness on my portable but apart from that it’s nice. Now, a team of developers has brought a mac osx like feature to [...]
Ubuntu 10.10 has been released a few day…
Filed in link, 18/10/2010, 21:01Ubuntu 10.10 has been released a few days ago and I found a few nice things to do with it: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/customizing-ubuntu-10-10-with-a-dock-new-icon-theme-effects-global-menu-and-more/ Share on Facebook
Ubuntu to lame
Filed in General, 20/08/2008, 01:26Now that I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop as primary system, I had the chance to check out many things on it and it displeases me greatly. The bugs I found: Firefox is still running even if everything is closed Movie player crashes if you fast forward a bit emerald and compiz run with [...]
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