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Reclaim partial select in firefox

webscriptz — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:15:45 +0000

In 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 notice the change.

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Reclaim Ubuntu firefox backspace key

webscriptz — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:59:25 +0000

Firefox 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).

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Ubuntu just go better

webscriptz — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:12:53 +0000

All 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 or gnome: gnome-do. check it out, install and enjoy:

http://do.davebsd.com/index.shtml

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Ubuntu 10.10 has been released a few day…

webscriptz — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:01:13 +0000

Ubuntu 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/

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Ubuntu to lame

webscriptz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:26:31 +0000

Now 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 problems
Less control over what you install rails is at version 2.1.x and I updated but still if I run
```
rails appname 
```
and then

firefox 0.0.0.0:3000

I get rails version 2.0.2 and I already reinstalled ubuntu just for that

Ubuntu has issues and if I can get gentoo running on my laptop I’ll change gladly. Unfortunantly gentoo has problems in virtualbox something with xorg server so I have to check that out.

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