Thunderbird is powerful and feature rich. But different users have different needs and it is not feasible to include all features into the base software, where a plugin system shines. Thunderbird, similar to Firefox from Mozilla, supports addons/plugins and has a large ecosystems. Here, we will introduce several addons to Thunderbird that make Thunderbird easier…
Firefox on CentOS7 does not have Flash enabled by default. How to install Flash Player plugin on CentOS 7? You may follow this tutorials to build a freshwrapper based flash plugin for Firefox on CentOS 7. If you don’t want to build it by yourself, you may download the pre-built .so from from this repository.
How to debug the media print view set by @media print {} in CSS of Web pages in Firefox? In firefox, after opening the Web page, First, hit “Shift + F2” to open the “Developer Toolbar” at the bottom. Second, in the “Developer Toobar”, input media emulate print and Firefox will show the print view…
In Firefox on Linux Mint, Google is not in the list of search engines supported. How to add Google in Firefox on Linux Mint? Check this tutorials to add Google in Firefox on Linux Mint: How to Add Google to Firefox in Linux Mint as Default Search Engine
Firefox on iOS can view bookmarks from PC. But how to sync the bookmarks made on iOS to PC? It seems the bookmarks made in Firefox on iPhone is local only. No, you can’t yet. Bookmarks saved on your iOS devices will not sync to your PC at current (by Nov. 25, 2015) version of…
Firefox needs an email address and a password to login and sync. Is Firefox Sync safe, that is, could someone else read my password saved in Firefox without my password? In short, only you with your password can see your data. Others, even Mozilla’s servers, without your password, can not see your decrypted data. In…
Firefox has multiple profiles and I am aware of choosing them by invoking firefox with the -P option. But I find that after one firefox instance under one profile is running, even I choose another profile during starting with -P, the new instance is still running under the existing profile. How to run firefox with…
How to run Chrome on remote host over a SSH tunnel? This way, I can access resource that can only be accessed inside the remote host’s network. Running Chrome over a SSH tunnel is much easier than running Firefox over SSH from a Linux host: First, ssh to the remote host with -X option: ssh…
How to download the video playing in Chrome? Download the video playing in Chrome. Checkout the “FVD Video Downloader”: FVD Video Downloader If you are using Firefox, DownloadHelper ( http://www.downloadhelper.net/ ) can handle videos even youtube very well.
How to set up Firefox Sync? The online Firefox help provides a very good tutorial on setting up Firefox sync across computers and other devides: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-set-up-firefox-sync
How to  run Firefox on Remote Host over SSH ? After $ ssh -X remotehost Run this script on remote host: #!/bin/bash export $(dbus-launch) export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=ENABLED firefox -no-remote & This script credits to Waxborg: http://waxborg.servepics.com/opensuse/remote-administration/running-firefox-remotely-over-ssh.
Quick links to some useful software on Windows including Web browsers, Video/audio player and ssh/scpsftp/vnc tools for connecting to Linux. ssh/scp/sftp/vnc for connecting to Linux For Linux users, it is sometimes unavoidably to use Windows. With Windows, the Linux users will need to connect to Linux for some tasks. Some general software are needed. The…
In Firefox on Linux Mint, Google is not in the default list of search engines. Linux Mint has its criteria for adding search engines while Google seems not in those suggested by Linux Mint because “Amongst commercial search engines, only the ones which share with Linux Mint the revenue Linux Mint users generate for them…
As you may know, Adobe stopped supporting the NPAPI version of Flash on Linux and the latest NPAPI version of Flash player at version 11.2 released back in 2012 will only receive security fixes. Even the security fixes to the 11.2 version of the Flash Plugin your Firefox is using will end on May 4,…
WhatsApp is a great messenger app on smart phones. There was ever some tricks to install WhatsApp app on iPod Touch or iPad. However, it is not possible now. But the good news is that the WhatsApp web is available so that users can use WhatsApp inside of a browser and the iPad or iPod…
Thunderbird is a great email client and what make it special is deeply configurable like Firefox. For me, I like to view email in the descending sort order and inline quote relied email content when replying emails. Let’s look at how to set the default order as descending sort order and quote mode as inline…
Firefox should always be ready there for us, right? Even after we closing the last tab, we would like firefox to be still open. At least I like to treat it in this way. But unfortunately, Firefox will close after we closing the last tab as default in version 3.5. But the good news is…
Firefox is highly configurable and there are lots add-ons for it. Addons make Firefox to be good. In this post, I list a set of the best add-ons that I use daily and make my life easier and happier. Essential Firefox addons Screengrab! to make screenshots and save to files or to clipboard. Foxy Gestures…
This post introduces how to install flash plugin to 64-bit firefox on a x86-64 Linux (Fedora as the example). Both 64-bit and 32-bit plugin are available. 64-bit flash plugin for Firefox on Linux First, download Flash Player Release for 64-bit Linux from Adobe Labs. Then, unpack the package: $ tar xf flashplayer.tar.gz Check whether all…
On a x86-64 64 bit Linux system, sometimes we may want to use the 32 bit Firefox, although the support to 64 bit Firefox is getting much better. Just for needed ones, this post introduces how to install 32 bit Firefox on 64 bit Linux (Fedora as the example). Install 32-bit firefox First, install firfox.i686…