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gusty firefox + google toolbar = hang

I love google toolbar and it's my number one online bookmark for a long time. After upgrade to gusty I feel that my firefox is not stable as it use to be. My firefox is freeze on some site that try to open second window. I'm not sure what's wrong firefox or toolbar but I know that after uninstall toolbar the problem gone. [to uninstall go to "Settings" > "Help" > "Uninstall" option on toolbar] Now I need something to replace google toobar jobs. Not too hard to find this. "Firefox Google Bookmark" for bookmarks. After install this extensions your firefox will has new menu "GBookmarks". below is screenshot Another thing i need is gmail notifyer, there are many firefox extension and linux apps can do this job. For me i choose checkgmail. pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude install checkgmail Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ... Building tag database... Done pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ note: for now look...

RealPlayer on Feisty

Today I try to open ptvthai.com[ the website that live broadcast rally against "council for national security" from sanamluang bangkok, uhh no politic here, Pls don't censor me ha ha ]. It needs realplayer plugin for firefox but "Plugin Finder Service" can't install it automatically. RealPlayer isn't on feisty repos yet for now and i can't wait. So to install i download RealPlayer10GOLD.bin, add execute permission and install it in $HOME/app/RealPlayer[ without sudo privileges ]. pnix@pnix-a7n:~/progdl$ wget http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer10GOLD.bin --23:26:37-- http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer10GOLD.bin => `download.html?f=unix%2FRealPlayer10GOLD.bin' . . Connecting to software-dl.real.com|66.203.123.22|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 5,802,563 (5.5M) [application/octet-stream] 100%[========================================...

How to make Firefox2 to open link in new tab

After upgrade to Feisty Fawn, one thing that's annoyed me is opening a link in new tab need to right click. Here is how to "force link that open new window to open in new tab". Open your firefox to about:config then set browser.link.open_external -> 3 browser.link.open_newwindow -> 3 browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction -> 2 that's it.