Category Archives: Firefox
Internet Explorer 7 Float Bug
July 25, 2007 – 12:49 am
Today while developing a WordPress theme for a client, I ran into a vexing Internet Explorer 7 bug. Anyone who’s done any website design is familiar with Internet Explorer 6 (or earlier) wreaking havoc with standards-compliant work that looks good in, say, Firefox. But thankfully IE 7 has for the most part been a big […]
Upgrade
July 21, 2006 – 11:13 pm
Yesterday I upgraded my main computer from Kubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) to 6.06 (Dapper). It’s probably one of the most painless upgrades of any that I’ve done: I few lines changed and typed, and apt-get does it all.
Flash for 64-bit Fedora Core 4
March 21, 2006 – 10:58 pm
I complained last week that there’s no Flash for Linux 64-bit. Ziobudda asked why I didn’t just install the 32-bit Firefox. Why not? I couldn’t think of any good reason. So here’s how I did it. First of all, I wanted to use yum so I could avoid all dependency issues (not to mention it […]
A hack to ax those annoying windows
April 18, 2005 – 3:13 pm
This tip isn’t as easy to set up as a Firefox extension, but it’s still pretty easy. The problem Many websites have links that force open a new window. Those new windows drive me crazy. At first I don’t notice a new window’s opened. Then I try to use the browser’s back button, and (“What? […]