64-bit Flash Player for Linux

Thursday, 20 November 2008

A long time coming Adobe have finally released a 64-bit version of their Flash Player and it's for Linux.

It's in Alpha but reports suggest it's actually quite stable, so good news all around for us with 64-bit Ibex machines ;-)

Adobe Flash Player 10 - 64bit Linux

You'll need to uninstall you're current Flash Player via either...

sudo aptitude remove flashplugin-nonfree

Or going into your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory and removing the old version.

To install simply download the tar file relevant to your distro, extract the plugin and drop it into your Firefox Plugins directory ~/.mozilla/plugins

Restart Firefox and you should be good to go,

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Category: Video Streaming Tutorials Linux
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Firefox Config

Thursday, 20 November 2008

to access the Firefox Configuration area, type this into your address box and hit enter...

about:config

If you completely screw things up you can reset to the defaults by...

Start Firefox in Safe Mode
Check the Reset to Defaults box
Click the Make Changes and Restart button

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Category: Research Firefox
Meta: Firefox Config

Swiftfox + Flash (under 64bit Hardy)

Thursday, 02 October 2008

Swiftfox is like Firefox, but hellishly optimized for your Linux build, you can get it from...

Go here
Then download the installer right for your build (if 64-bit, download Athlon 64)

Once downloaded, navigate to the download in Terminal and do,

sudo sh install-swiftfox.sh

Flash

Now to get Flash running first check the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory exists on your machine, if not create it...

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins

Adobe only provide it as a 32-bit library but with the necessary dependency you can support it so run...

sudo aptitude install nspluginwrapper

Once you've got that you should be capable of handling the 32-bit Flash player,

...grab Flash from here

Download the .tar.gz version, extract it to your desktop, then move the libflashplayer.so into the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory,

sudo mv ~/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so  ~/.mozilla/plugins

And finally restart Swiftfox, navigate to a flash video here and enjoy faster browsing with Swiftfox + Flash!

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Category: Tutorials Linux Firefox
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In Firefox We Trust

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

firefox 3

After many months of hard work on behalf of the Mozilla corporation, and lots of testing and fixes from so many smarties; Firefox 3 has finally and officially gone gold.

Better standards compliance, security, memory fixes, just tons and tons of new improvements (not to mention the new rendering engine), this one's a goodie.

Go download it now, Ghandi would be proud ;-)

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Firefox Addons (3rd edition)

Thursday, 03 January 2008

More really decent Firefox Addons...

ColorZilla
...provides an eyedropper, like photoshop
ThrashMail.net
...dummy email address generator
FFmyIp
...displays your machine's ip address
LoremIpsum Content Generator
...generates lorem ipsum text for your web designs
FireFtp
...ftp file manager addon for firefox
FireBug
...the best web debugger in history
Web Developer Toolbar
...very competent web design addon
Delicious Toolbar
...add your del.ici.ous links to firefox
YSlow
...addon to FireBug, ranks your sites performance and offers solutuions to speed it up
FireCookie
...addon to FireBug, gives you total control of cookies
Tails
...Microformats statusbar extension, lights up when it sees microformat code in a webpage
PicLens
...instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images across the web