Tag Archive for 'firefox'

firefox nightly in a portable format

want to use firefox nightly in a port­able apps format on windows?
grab the latest version of firefox port­able from here and install to the loc­a­tion of your choice (usb key etc).
get the latest version of the nightly build here (scroll to the bottom and down­load the appro­pri­ate zip…not the exe) and extract it to a temp dir­ect­ory some­where (not on the usb key). once you’ve extrac­ted it go into the firefox dir­ect­ory (it may be in sub-directory depend­ing on how you extrac­ted the archive) hit ctrl-a to select all the files. do a ctrl-c to copy them and then head over to where you installed firefox port­able. now for the firefox dir­ect­ory, which should be in firefoxportable\app\. click into it. delete all the files that are in there then do a ctrl-v to paste all the nightly files, in.
that should be it. start firefox port­able in the usual way (FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe) and you should be running the new version you chose.
be warned that some of your exten­sions will no doubt be broken.

and please note that in my defence i have to use windows at work, rather than linux, so i run firefox port­able within a truecrypt con­tainer through a vpn tunnel. so there.

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dropbox on linux with symbolic links

decided to try out siphon for firefox to sync my add-ons between com­puters. all’s working well but after a wee tip from @rantz i decided to extend things a wee bit using dropbox. he sug­ges­ted using it to share grease­mon­key scripts.but i thought i’d like to try it with my gimp install which i use both at work and home.

by default dropbox creates your share folder within your home dir­ect­ory (/home/user/Dropbox) but i have a few dir­ect­or­ies out-with this folder that i’d like to sync. afore­men­tioned gimp set­tings folder for example.

to do this some simple sym­bolic links are used… for the gimp cd into the dropbox dir­ect­ory and issue

ln –s /home/user/.gimp-2.6 /home/user/Dropbox/gimp

repeat this with any folder or file you like. fancy trying dropbox? you get 2 giga­bytes of storage free…and if you use this link and i get a wee bit of extra storage too ;)


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browser benchmark — test yours with peacekeeper

future­mark (the people behind the famous graph­ics card bench­marks) have a browser test avail­able on their site peace­keeper.

you can check out other browsers results or test your own.

i only have three installed at the moment on ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 and my paltry results can be seen in this screenshot…

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TACO firefox plugin/add-on

there’s a new plugin for firefox called TACO (Tar­geted Advert­ising Cookie Opt-Out).

it allows you to opt-out of 27 37 sep­ar­ate beha­vi­oral ad net­works includ­ing google, youtube etc.

the plugin’s avail­able here (but you’ll need to be signed up to the mozilla devel­op­ment network not any more you don’t) or here as a direct down­load from the author’s site.

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