Three Best Firefox Extensions / Add-ons

August 11th, 2009 Alex Posted in firefox, internet, web Comments Off

I tried many other add-ons and extensions, but these are the ones I can’t live without:

  1. Adblock Plus
  2. No Script
  3. Firebug (mostly for web development)
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DiggBar Killer for Greasemonkey

April 14th, 2009 Alex Posted in web Comments Off

Best way I found to get rid of the digg bar:

Greasemonkey’s DiggBar Killer script.

Pre-requisites: Greasemonkey for Firefox.

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Flash crashes/hangs Firefox when switching to fullscreen

February 8th, 2009 Alex Posted in flash, linux, video, web Comments Off

The best solution/workaround I found is to create an executable script (eg: start_firefox) with the following lines (1, 2):

#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libGL.so.1"
/home/alexb/apps/firefox/firefox

chmod +x start_firefox
./start_firefox

Another solution is to disable the hardware acceleration in Flash (probably a bad solution):

  1. Right click on the embedded Flash window inside Firefox (flash video)
  2. Settings…
  3. go to the first tab
  4. un-check “Enable hardware acceleration”

Now you should be able to go full screen…

Here is the version of the software I was using.

  • Flash v10,0,15,3
  • Firefox 3.0.5 and 3.5.2
  • NVIDIA video driver 180.22
  • Kernel 2.6.27.7-smp
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Backup your Firefox Passwords

December 5th, 2008 Alex Posted in linux, web, windows Comments Off

There are only 2 files you need to backup:

  • signons.sqlite
  • key3.db

You can find those in your Firefox profile:

Linux

~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/

Windows

  1. Click the Windows Start button, and select Run….
  2. Type in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ then click OK.

You can then copy those file to another computer in your Firefox profile to use them.

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You know Flash is inefficient when ..

November 25th, 2008 Alex Posted in flash, games, web Comments Off

DOOM 1, a 15 year old game converted to flash, is jerky on a fairly recent computer.

It’s still worth a try, play now.

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