Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser, and Ubuntu's default one.
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Show Firefox bookmarks button in Firefox navigation bar?
I tested Natty Beta 2 yesterday and found that the bookmarks button is hidden. The usual way to show it seems to be hiding the menubar under Customize, however there is no Menubar option in there now. ...
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Turn off all sounds from websites
Often, I am listening to music of my choosing. Is there a way to preemptively turn off all sounds originating from websites? I don't want to click the 'mute' button once the page loads. And ...
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Gmail offline on Firefox 4.0.1: “Offline Mail is not supported by your browser”
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and its default browser Firefox 4.0.1.
A pretty standard configuration, so I am surprised that Gmail offline cannot be configured and tells me:
Offline Mail is not ...
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How to install .xpi file for firefox?
Hi everyone i just downloaded a download accelerator skdownloader for Firefox 4, i installed the program alright but now I'm stuck at installing the accompanying add on .xpi for the program to be ...
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changing a ppa from dev to stable safely
ubuntu comes with firefox (stable) built-in. I wanted to try Aurora, so I added ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora to the source list and upgraded this way :
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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4oD (UK) - Can't stream
I'm using the most up-to-date version of firefox and flash player.
When I go on 4oD and press play I used to get the loading screen showing forever with nothing playing. I then had a search and ...
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Why is Firefox Prism not in the repositories anymore?
Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser which hosts web applications without the full browser interface. It seems as if Firefox Prism was removed from the repos since 10.04; there is no package for ...
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How to find firefox path?
I have firefox in start menu, but there is no "properties" like in windows. how to find out were firefox is installed and how to check path of link in menu?
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How do I get the Java plugin in Firefox 3.6 working? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install Oracle Java JRE 7?
I have Ubuntu 10.10. I needed the Sun Java so I added Sun Oracle as supplier of packages and installed java-6. However, I haven't ...
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Font rendering in Firefox is blurry
A picture is worth a thousand words... so does anyone know how to fix this font blurriness in Firefox?
(You'll need to right-click the picture below go to View Image to view it full-size; it's too ...
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Is it possible to install Firefox 3.0 as well as the default package?
I'm a webdeveloper and using ubuntu 10.10 maverick. I want to track down a bug that appears in firefox 3.0, but not 3.5/3.6. Is there an easy way to install firefox 3.0 without it ...
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Pencil export page as PNG does not work
I was trying to use the latest Pencil (version 2.0.3) in Ubuntu 12.04, but the PNG exporting does not work, with Pencil working both inside and outside Firefox (which is 19.0.2).
The export page as ...
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Some windows not showing up in Alt + Tab
I installed Chromium from the Software Centre yesterday and realised it wasn't showing up in Alt + Tab switching so I decided to go back to Firefox. It turns out Firefox also doesn't show up, but only ...
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How do I make a digital certificate available to LibreOffice Writer for digital signatures?
I obtained a client certificate from CAcert through Firefox. I want to use that certificate to sign a document created with LibreOffice Writer.
In Writer, I click File > Digital Signatures... to ...
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How to check system performance?
I am a new Ubuntu user and really like the look and the features of the OS. However, I have a feeling that the performance could be better. With that I mean:
Somehow the scrolling within firefox of ...
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Firefox youtube flash player shows as grey box?
Firefox and Youtube videos were working after upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 but a couple of weeks ago, my Youtube flash video player shows up as a grey box. The sound still works and I can hear the ...
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How to install Iceweasel?
I was searching for Firefox-like browsers ('clones') and found about a few that I want to test, but could not install Iceweasel in Ubuntu. (Older links that I found with this google search - here and ...
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How do I open “apt” links in Firefox on Lubuntu?
Many answers on Ask Ubuntu direct to links like this that in Xubuntu opened in Ubuntu Software Center. In Lubuntu I get this error message:
In Firefox-Preferences/Applications cannot see something ...
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launching a program from bash causes bash to go to new prompt
When I run a program from the console, e.g.
me@box:~$ firefox
I expect the console to log error messages (I think this is std out or std err?) and other items from the program, firefox in this ...
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How to launch different firefox profiles via the keyboard using Unity
I'm a heavy user of firefox profiles - a general one, work and one just for facebook so facebook doesn't know where I'm browsing. I have customised my firefox launcher icon to give me access to ...
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Firefox update fails with “not found” error
I got 3 update notifications for firefox:
Yet when I click update, it fails with a "not found" error:
Any idea why this is? How to fix this?
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How can I run simultaneously two different firefox profiles
In (K)ubuntu, how can I run more than one Firefox profile simultaneously? I need this to run different websites with different extensions.
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Is this really the only way to simply put a link to a web page on my desktop?
After going through many results of a google search on this subject I've only found this solution: Creating a desktop launcher.
I'm using Firefox 8.0 on Ubuntu 11.10. Please tell me this is ...
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How can I install a specific older version of Firefox and keep it from automatically updating?
I wrote a bash script to configure a suite of tools for continuous integration on top of Ubuntu 10.04.2. The script recently stopped working and I tracked the problem down to the newer version of ...
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How do I install Pencil?
Pencil either runs as a Firefox extension or as a standalone application with XULRunner 1.9.2.
Trying to install XULRunner:
rich@rich-laptop:~/apps/pencil$ sudo apt-get install xulrunner-1.9.2
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Extract form data from a Firefox profile database
I'm in the process of moving house. My desktop is currently working in headless mode. There isn't an X server and because it's all configured up for Nvidia, forwarding isn't working (missing NV ...
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Are there any advantages to using the Firefox PPA over Firefox in the Repository?
Is there any advantage to using "ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable" over just using what's available in the repositories for 11.04?
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How to create a Firefox shortcut stored with user and password?
Is it possible to create a Firefox shortcut with username and password stored inside? Even if the cookies got cleared the username and password should remain.
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How do I install Firefox 3.6? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 in parallel?
I need to install Firefox 3.6 for plugin compatibility on Ubuntu 11, how do I install Firefox 3.6 so that it replaces the ...
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My Facebook doesn't work on Ubuntu 10.10 but works on Windows XP
I have both operating systems installed on my PC, but Facebook only works on XP.
I have tried Firefox and Chromium, but it works the first time, but after I log in it doesn't work, and can only open ...
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How to remove typed-in URLs from browser history in Firefox?
I know I can remove visited pages from the history via History→Show all History, and simply mark the unwanted entries plus hit the Delete key. But this seems not to remove the URLs I've typed ...
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How to clear a Firefox address bar without selecting its content?
Sometimes I need to move an url from an app to a browser. I select the url, say in gvim, and make Firefox window active. Then I see that I should clear address bar before pasting the new url, which ...
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How can I open pdfs in firefox using evince (not acrobat)?
I already installed mozplugger
sudo apt-get install mozplugger
Then I changed the pdf part of /etc/mozpluggerrc into the following:
application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
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How can I find “Firefox updates:” option in “firefox preferences > Advanced > update” tab
I'm new for ubuntu, using firefox-11.0 in ubuntu-10.10, recently I removed ffox-3.6 and installed ffox-11.0 from superuser. Even I cann't find update options in firefox preferences > Advanced > ...
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How to always show menu in Firefox?
How do I get the application menu to be placed inside the Firefox window?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and Firefox 12.0.
I like Unity as a whole, but the Mac-style "globalmenu" idea provides bad ...
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Can Firefox open (embedded) PDF's without starting Okular?
How can I make Firefox on Kubuntu to open PDF in its embedded PDF viewer, like it does on Windows? Currently it opens PDF's in Okular. Some websites (with embedded PDF's) malfunction because of this ...
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Can I sync bookmarks between Firefox and Chromium?
So, Firefox has turned so resource intensive that my netbook can't run it without making me want to pull my hair out. Thus, I have been trying Chromium with quite some success (I have managed to find ...
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Adobe Flash not working in Firefox
I am getting following image everytime I try playing videos on Youtube or FB. I have already tried uninstalling flashlugin and then installing again. But, it didnt help. I also tried installing it via ...
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Can I use the same built in flash library from Chrome in Firefox?
Chrome comes with flash support by default, Firefox does not. If I use both on my system is there a way to use the library responsible displaying flash content in Chrome to do the same in Firefox?
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Very tiny scroll bar in GNOME Shell
I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 with GNOME Shell. Everything is okay except the scroll bar, especially in Firefox. It's very, very tiny, especially in long pages!
Also, I don't know why ...
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Where does my browser store temporary data?
How can one look at content of temporary cache of his computer ?
After something not actually downloaded ( just pressing the button to open data not download) to any directory, this data ...
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How do I enable submission of performance data in Firefox 7?
One item in the release notes of Firefox 7 reads
Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to
Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
This is feature is also called ...
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How can I change Firefox switching tabs shortcuts?
I was used to press Control+1, Control+2 and so on to switch between tabs in Firefox. Now, in Unity, I have to use the Alt key instead. How can I change that?
Thanks!
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What is Namoroka, and should I have it instead of Minefield or Firefox 4?
Can someone please clear up what the difference between Namoroka, Minefield, and Firefox 4 is? Which one will eventually "win out," and which one should I have installed?
My 10.10 install came with ...
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Google image search super slow
I've just started using Ubuntu (10.10) so I have a reasonably fresh install.
Regardless of if I use the Firefox 4 latest beta or 3.6.13. Google image search is dead slow and sometimes intermittently ...
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How to run java 1.5 applets inside my web browser?
I need to run an applet that requires java 1.5.
It does not matter if I should uninstall java 6.
Even doesn't matter if it applies for firefox or chrome.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04
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How can I change the hotkey to Firefox's Search Engine field (next to the address bar)
In the Ubuntu version of Firefox, the keybinding to the the Search Engine text-box
(next to the addressbar) is different to what I am used to (in the Windows version).
Can I change this key form ...
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Transfer browser tabs from Firefox to Google Chrome
If Google Chrome and Firefox are both running, is there any way to transfer all browser tabs from Firefox to Google Chrome? I want to write a shell script that will transfer all tabs from Firefox to ...
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Libre office (read only) issue
I run ubuntu 10.04 with the latest version of LibreOffice (the one release the other day). When downloading a document - like something in excel in my firefox, and want to open it, it opens up in ...
