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firefox
MS .net Plugin automatically installed in Firefox
Unbelieveable – they did it again… Microsoft really seems to have massive problems when it comes down to “what users need” and “how to implement it”. Latest example I just learned of – the .net click-once thingy bitty extension that is installed AUTOMATICALLY and WITHOUT any knowledge of the user for Firefox. In a MSDN [...]
Fix Firefox
For a long time, I was encountering problems with Firefox on Windows. Especially on Ajax-sites, but also on various other sites, Firefox all of a sudden seemed to load and load and load forever – without even doing anything… The only possibility was then to shut down Firefox and kill the task in the Taskmanager. [...]
Video files on Linux with Firefox
The mplayerplug-in is not really working, I have to say… therefore, I installed this firefox extension (MediaPlayerConnectivity) – which will launch any videos in an external player (like mplayer)…. works flawlessly and with almost all video formats! Share and Enjoy:
Firefox and the Scroll Mouse
I fixed an annoying behaviour in Firefox: When I scrolled fast with the scroll wheel on my mouse, Firefox would go back and forth (depending on the scroll direction) in my browser history. I found some resource that described the solution: I had to change the ZAxisMapping in xorg.conf. I did as suggested – the [...]
Fix and tweak
We have loads to fix and to tweak! There is a problem accessing the SMB-shares (they are chmoded rwxr-xr-x), so I change the corresponding lines in /etc/fstab to have dmask=770,fmask=770 instead of umask=007 Now, Firefox. I emerge the mplayerplug-in; for this to work correctly, I add divx, wmp and realmedia to my use flags (note [...]
