Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser, and Ubuntu's default one.
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why does chown have no effect? (13.04)
I am using chown because folders/files I download via Firefox are being saved as being owned by root instead of my own user...
when I used:
sudo chown -R -v username:username path/path/path
I see ...
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How can I restore session in Firefox?
When I start Ubuntu's version of Firefox, there is no button restore previous session, just some Ubuntu buttons. How can I restore the session in Ubuntu's version?
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Upgrade to 13.04. Laptop fan running excessivly
I recently updated to Ubuntu 13.04 on a Dell laptop. I did not have this problem with the previous version.
Normally the fan is not running. But then something (perhaps some web site) triggers the ...
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Xubuntu 13.04 Thunderbird links won't open
So, whenever I click a link in an email, Firefox opens a new window with a blank tab.
Firefox is the default browser.
I have made the following values "True" and picked Firefox when prompted.
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How to download MP3s from Amazon Cloud Player, Banshee and Raring Ringtail [duplicate]
There are a few questions relating to this, many of which have answers, but all are dated and not working for me. I am trying to download my purchased music from Amazon, but am running into the ...
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How to backup and restore Firefox bookmarks from command line?
Is there an easy way to backup Firefox bookmarks to a file with command line. Running a find command, I managed to find this file: ...
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Middleclick leads to page back in Firefox
when I middleclick, on a link, it opens it in a new tab, which is the wanted behavior. But sometimes, I miss the link by a few dots which leads in firefox going a page back.
In Windows that behavior ...
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Installing Moonlight? Extracting .crx files?
I am trying to install moonlight on my 13.04 64-bit ubuntu system. I am using chromium as my main browser and firefox as backup.
I read that to install the moonlight downloaded .crx file in chromium, ...
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Firefox cannot draw the new Google Maps
Google released the new Google Maps.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on Firefox 21.0 on Ubuntu 13.04.
When I open the page, Firefox just draws white grids on the screen.
Dragging or clicking the ...
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Installing an older version of firefox
I'm trying to install an older version of firefox. My Selenium script requires that the system be able to open firefox by issuing the command firefox from anywhere.
I created a symlink from the ...
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Is there a way to use firefox favicons with alt-tab?
At work, I tend to have multiple instances of firefox open at once -- one for outlook web app, one for jira, another one or two for some in-house web apps... on top of this, I will often have a few ...
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Firefox's popping up advertisement windows
For more than two weeks my firefox opens popping up advertisement windows. Could there be a gap within Ubuntu update system? I think this way because I only apply updates that are sent by update ...
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can not sign in online accounts with facebook
I tried to enter a new facebook account via gnome-control-center's "Online Accounts" but it doesn't work. When I click facebook, it shows a rotating icon then firefox opens and opens a page where ...
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Ubuntu Upgrade Broke FIrefox v20 to v21 [closed]
The Ubuntu Software Updater just ran and upgraded Firefox from version 20 to version 21 and now Firefox does not run from the Application menu any more.
Running it from a command prompt results in ...
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Ubuntu 13.04: can't connect to many sites (including github) in Firefox and Chrome
[I have posted the same issue on Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2145713 . I am repeating it here to see if I can find an answer here.]
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 recently, and ...
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Why do the versions of Thunderbird and Firefox differ in 12.10?
I noticed, that on my Ubuntu 12.10 Thunderbird is only version 17.06 while Firefox is already on 21.0.
It seems, like the updates of Firefox are somewhat faster?
Do I have to install the PPA for ...
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Close current tab firefox using terminal
I have firefox already running on my system, and now in minimised state. What I want is to close the current tab running in firefox. How can I do this by simply using commands in terminal?
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After updates Ubuntu works very slow etc
So yesterday I got a notification of some available updates, in all honesty I haven't looked at what updates these were. I just followed all the updates as usual.
Now when I start up my laptop, ...
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How to unzip and display as plain text .foo.gz files in Firefox?
Using Firefox (currently at version 20.0), when browsing to a URL containing a file with an extension of .foo.gz, how can I make Firefox download it to a temporary location, un-gzip it and display the ...
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Cannot get web-apps working in Ubuntu 12.10
I have been using vanilla Ubuntu 12.10 since it came out, and I will be upgrading to 13.04 in a month or two. However, I recently decided to try to install a couple of web-apps. I was unable to do so, ...
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Firefox printing problem in ubuntu 12.4
I m just install ubuntu 12.4. I can print anything with my network printer. but when i tried to print from firefox the printer icon shown in the task bar and just disappear without printing. I upgrade ...
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firefox about:sync-log gives error.sync.failed
I've reset my firefox sync password, but log errors persist when trying to sync:
1368328240529 Sync.ErrorHandler DEBUG Flushing file log.
1368328240531 Sync.Service DEBUG Exception: ...
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Problem with Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 [closed]
Since some time I have serious problems with Firefox (Ubuntu 10.04). Quite frequently he crashes unexpectedly. How can I solve this? Is it possible to update to a new version (my current version ...
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Firefox keeps changing http://localnode:8080 to http://localnode.com8080/. How do I change this?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04. On version 11 it was doing this, but now it has changed. I am a ham radio operator and I am trying to use the wrt54g Linksys router for digital communications.
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Lubuntu 13.04 freezes when starting firefox
after upgrading to Lubuntu 13.04 (fresh install from alternate) everything freezes when starting Firefox. 12.04 and 12.10 were fine and it's only Firefox causing a total freeze of the system.
Any ...
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Right Click menu of firefox 20 does not work in ubuntu12.04 amd64?
After I update firefox to version 20, right-click on the web page gives almost all of menu list.
I use firefox 'Menu Editor' extension to cancel some list items in right-click menu, but I find some ...
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Web browser is having problem on processing js in UTF-8
I am using Firefox 20.0, but once I was browsing a website(Chinese) and the Lunar Calendar javascript got something like NaN or Undefined. The website has been tested under iPod, Firefox in Windows ...
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Unresponsive window in firefox? [closed]
2.8 MHz Intel Pentium Dual 32 bit 1 GB RAM
Unresponsive script(s)running requiring force quit in firefox; The window grays and darkens, outputs error message and eventually resumes. It has affected ...
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Symbolic link creation pointing Firefox
I am getting this error on Firefox when trying to confirm a file over the internet:
Error type: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError
Error message: Native Library /usr/lib/firefox/libmozsqlite3.so already ...
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I cannot get the localhost webserver on firefox to display jpg or jpeg files
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Firefox. I cannot display jpg files when browser starts up. But if I click on ICON there is no problem. I am attaching a few screen shots. Am adding display from ...
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Can't see wordpress's “recommend” on Facebook template in Chrome
A friend is helping us update our political group website. The thing is I asked him to add a recommend on Facebook and "Tweet" options so people can share the posts if they liked them.
The problem ...
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Bash Script using a Firefox Profile to open URLs
Working on a script to automate some tasks in Firefox.
These tasks should run through a clean Firefox profile, so they are fast and don't interfere with any of my regular surfing.
#!/bin/bash
# ...
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How to integrate KeyPass2 and Firefox using Keefox/PassIFox in Ubuntu 13.04
I have already Installed KeePass2 and also installed both Add-ons Keefox, PassIFox. But I don't know how to integrate it. Pls help me with the instructions.
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Ubuntu 13.10 without sound in flashvideos at Firefox/Chromiun
Hey guys my new ubuntu is no sound when i play flash videos.
But in my players sound is fine.
Any suggestion?
sorry for my bad english
cheers from brazil :)
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XUl + Unity web API
Is way to make Unity Web Apps API available in XUL application? XUL applications lighter than Firefox. I think this is the best way for use web applications as desktop platform.
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“MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME not set” zekr quran ubuntu 13.04 ERROR
I have installed zekr Quran study software in ubuntu 13.04, but it showes error
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [Unknown Mozilla path (MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME not set)]
at ...
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icedtea-7-plugin non-functional in Ubuntu 13.04
I installed(sudo apt-get install) icedtea-7-plugin (and all its dependencies) and have closed firefox and reopened it; and the plugin still does not appear in http//about:plugins
Is there a fix for ...
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How to get Pearson eText to work on Ubuntu? (13.04)
Upon upgrading, I am having trouble getting Pearson eTextbooks to display on Ubuntu 13.04. When trying to access the web textbook on ubuntu Firefox, it gives "Error #2046".
If I try using wine, it ...
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Uninstalling Firefox means installing KDE
I'm running Ubuntu with Gnome-shell. For reasons outside of this question, I needed to temporarily uninstall Firefox. I had no other browser installed at that time. On entering
sudo apt-get ...
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How come I can't resize Google Chrome's window less than 595px?
For some reason I can not resize Chrome's window to less than 595 px on Ubuntu 12.10. I can resize Firefox's window to 0 px. Also I can resize the Chrome window to a very small size on Windows. This ...
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Unable to login to Amazon Instant Video after upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
I upgrade from Ubuntu version 12.10, I had fixed this issue before by loading hal, but that fix does not work in version 13.04. I ran the fix and still getting the following error:
Playback ...
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Terminal command to open URL's in default and non-default browser
I found this Ask Ubuntu question about how to open a URL in your default browser using the Terminal. Basically, you use the command
xdg-open http://google.com
My default browser is Firefox. But ...
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Quick minimal Ubuntu install with firefox and java
I tried minimal CD by ended up with libreoffice-like crap installed. Just want gnome (or other) firefox and java for internet banking. Nothing else.
What's the quickest way of installing ubuntu with ...
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Unable to upgrade firefox in ubuntu
I tried these 3 commands to upgrade my firefox version
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox
But it doesn't seems to be work out.
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Can't load some domain
I can't load some domain on my ubuntu 13.04:
youtube.com
translate.google.com
drive.google.com
vk.com
When I ping them they are responding:
PING youtube.com (217.119.79.59) 56(84) bytes of data.
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Firefox/Chrome links slow unless I type URL directly in address bar
My web browser has become slow. Google works fine, but clicking on any link takes forever with "waiting for xxxx.xx". Strange bit is, if I click in the address bar and highlight the URL, then press ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Firefox 20.0 and Yahoo Mail
Just installed 13.04 with built-in Firefox 20.0. Strangely enough in Yahoo Mail I cannot view contents of any mail folder except Inbox. Any other folder (Sent, Trash, etc) when clicked won't open but ...
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Run a remote firefox session locally
I'm trying to run a remote firefox session on my vps, to try to download some large files to the server.
I've installed firefox from the apt repo remotely, and I also have firefox installed on my ...
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Embedded fonts not shown in Firefox 20 after upgrade to 13.04 from 12.10 [closed]
After upgrade ubuntu to 13.04 from Ubuntu 12.10 the websites with embedded fonts not shown in firefox but show fine in Chromium and Epiphany. look at the following pictures to understand me better:
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can't minimize Firefox in 13.04 (LiveDVD) [closed]
Largely enjoyed my experience with 64-bit 13.04 from the LiveDVD - seems quite faster than 12.04's Unity! However, Firefox froze when I minimized it, then kind of tried to 'come back' after a few ...
