Posts Tagged by Firefox

Firefox 3.6 – new tab opening order – fix

25-Jan-2011 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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… in Firefox 3.6 however only new tabs are opened at the far right of the tabbar while new tabs that are opened from existing tabs, e.g. by middle-clicking a link in an already open tab, are opened next to the tab containing the link … about:config … filter for the term tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent. The default value of the parameter is true which simply means that related tabs are opened after the current and not at the end. A double-click on the row will change the value to false indicating that related tabs will from then on be opened at the end of the tabbar just like new tabs

Full article at ghacks.net.

Firefox – default paper size A4

02-Jul-2009 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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A bug that has been dragging on for years – Firefox under Ubuntu (and other distros) doesn’t respect the locale setting, and defaults to printing in US Letter size – grrrr…

Firefox: Guide for the Perplexed seems to suggest:

  • about:config
  • print.postscript.paper_size set to “A4″

Now to see if it holds, and work out a way to script this (I have a set of bash scripts that keeps all my Ubuntu desktops the same).

Firefox fonts on Gutsy

26-Mar-2009 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under , ,
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I recently reinstalled Ubuntu Gutsy on one of my laptops, and the fonts in Firefox came up ugly. I can’t remember what I did last time to improve the fonts, but this techniques in this post made things a bit better. Also checkout this and this.

Speed up Firefox on Linux – Disable IPv6 Lookups

09-Jan-2009 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under ,
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A post a stumbled upon – Speed up Firefox on Linux – Disable IPv6 Lookups. I don’t know if it works but I’m trying it now.

In a nutshell:

  • about:config
  • in the filter field, type “DNS” and hit enter
  • double-click on “network.dns.disableIPv6″, changing its value from False to True

See also my other post pdnsd on Ubuntu for faster dns

Ssh SOCKS proxying, DNS proxying, Tunnelling

12-Jun-2008 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under , , , , , , ,
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Mary Gardiner answered one of Voytek Eymont’s questions on the SLUG list by referring to the ssh socks proxying post on Ubuntu Blog. I was already familiar with ssh socks proxying, but that page has a good set of comments and links. A summary of that post, plus some other notes:

  • setup via $ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server, configure web browser socks 5 host (not http proxy) to localhost:9999 (On Firefox: Preferences, Advanced, Network, Settings, Manual, SOCKS Host. FoxyProxy really helps with this – you can setup wildcards to send certain URLs via certain proxies eg for when connecting via a VPN to work)
  • http proxying can be setup at the command line (for use by wget, apt, etc) with the http_proxy environment variable. For example export http_proxy=’http://user:password@1.2.3.4:3128/’; cmd1; cmd2; export http_proxy=”
  • configure apt to use a proxy via /etc/apt/apt.conf by using Acquire::http::Proxy “http://username:password@proxyserver:port/”; See Using apt-get behind a proxy.
  • there’s also corkscrew (preferred), connect.c, and proxychains to secure other traffic or setup tunnels automagically in ~/.ssh/config. For example:
% sudo aptitude install corkscrew

% cat ~/.ssh/config
Host foo.bar.com
    User me
    Port 443
    ProxyCommand corkscrew 1.2.3.4 8080 %h %p ~/.ssh/proxyauth

% cat ~/.ssh/proxyauth
username:password

Jan/2011:

export http_proxy='http://219.93.2.113:3128/'
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