Firefox extension - Preferences Mover

Name: Preferences Mover
URL: Mozilla.org
Version: 1.0

Many people who have jumped to linux would have noticed that, In firefox the preferences is in the edit menu rather than the tools menu. If you feel that its alright to be that way, then cool. But if you want it to be in the tools menu (like in windows), then you could install this extension and change the location of the preferences item.

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Firefox, Extension

Linux and Keyboard selection

While installing linux I had selected the keyboard mappings to be U.S. International. But this selection has been creating a few problems for me.

While typing I noticed that the double quotes would'nt come. I had to press the key 3 or 4 times and even after that a wierd looking double quotes appeared. It looked like the tail part had been removed from the actual double quotes.

I tried desperately to look for a solution when I came across the keyboard settings in the "System Settings" menu. I change the keyboard mapping to U.S. and now it works fine.

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Keyboard, Linux

Vieweing CHM files on linux

Hmmm, CHM files are very popular for the fact that they are very compact and deliver the content in HTML format. Unlike PDF, which is supported by all operating systems, CHM is not.

If you want to include support for CHM files on linux, here is the procedure. If you are a regular linux user, all you will need are the packages and follow the regular installation instructions, for the newbies, here are the links and procedures.

You will need three packages.

1. XCHM
2. chmlib (xchm needs this package)
3. wxGTK+
   

From the xchm downloads section download the appropriate package (Fedora RPM in my case).

Download the latest version of chmlib and wxGTK from the site´s respective download sections.

Use the following commands to install the libraries.

Open a terminal and goto the directory where you extracted the compressed files.
After that use these commands in order to install those libraries.

1. ./configure
2. make
3. make install
4. ldconfig

After this you are done.

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Linux, CHM

Dependency problems on linux

I have been trying to install a lot of packages on linux lately and one thing I am sure of now is that, if you dont want to download additional supporting packages, then you better install all development libraries that are present in the installation discs. After installing those packages I havent come across any dependency problems till now.

I dont think this will solve dependency problems for all the packages present in the linux world but then it wont be asking you for the commonly available stuff like GTK libraries or Qt libraries.

I am using Fedora linux Core 4, but I guess this should solve problems with other versions of linux too.

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Linux, Troubleshoot

Where to find rpm or dependency files?

I was looking for a lot of rpms when I was trying to customise linux and install all the applications that I might need, while jumping from one platform to the other.

http://rpmfind.net

You can look for other linux programs also on this site.

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Linux, RPM

https:// form submition notification

Today after a long time I installed Fedora linux on my laptop. The default browser in linux is Mozilla and not Firefox. I should tell you Firefox with its good looks (thanks to the littlefox theme) and unlimited customisable options is the best browser around for a developer and a home user.

I have been using firefox for such a long time that I have started taking stuff for granted. Firefox usually changes the colour of the address bar when a page is retrieved from a secure source. Since the number of phishing attacks have increased lately, I make it a point that the form is being submitted on a secure channel (the url begins with https://). Today while using mozilla, I didnt find the colour change so I thought something was wrong with sun.com, only to find out that Mozilla did not change the colour of the location bar.

I know there is a small (really small) icon at bottom-right corner to tell the user if the current page is secure or not, but still there should be more clearer indications for that. As far as the blue e is concenrned, I dont give a flying fuc*.

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SSL, HTTPS, Security, Browser, Firefox, Mozilla