I’ve been struggling to find a way to disable the history menu in Firefox (3.6.39) for a while now.. I’ve found some addons that were not available for my version, some guides about creating a userChrome.css file and so on but none worked.
Finally I found an addon that works fine although it says that History menu is not yet implemented in the settings… The addon is called Menu Editor and can be downloaded here.
To disable the history menu go to Tools > Addons and hit preferences below Menu Editor. Below “Edit Menu” there is a dropdown list, select “History” and uncheck the “Visible” checkbox next to the dropdown list. Click on the green V icon to turn it into a red X and press Apply and then OK.
It seems the guides I found over at mozilla forums weren’t that good and the authors misleading.. Anyway, I gave it a further thought and after some digging I found out how to hide the History menu using the userChrome.css method properly.
Browse to ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile-folder/chrome and create a file called userChrome.css with following content inside
#history-menu {display: none !important}
Be sure to use the right profile-folder if you have many profiles in Firefox. I have only one so the folder in my case is called 6fwxks89.default.
Now restart Firefox and the History menu should be hidden!
Here is a small and handy guide on how to convert .rmp files into .deb files.
First of you have to install alien
sudo apt-get install alien
Then browse to your .rpm file and execute following command
sudo alien -d filename.rpm
Finally, to install the newly created .deb file, execute following command
sudo dpkg -i filename.deb
When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Firefox felt very slow compared to how it was in Karmic. That made me switch to Google Chrome and use it as the main browser in my system. This morning, I found a way to fix this Firefox slow problem in Lucid and I decided to share it with you in case you feel the same way about it!
Open your Firefox and type about:config in the URL-bar. Hit enter and press the confirmation button “I’ll be careful, I promise”. When that is done, you’ll see a filter bar and a list of settings below it.
The changes you have to do are following four. To find them easily and fast, enter the name of each line in the filter bar.
network.http.pipelining -> change it from False to True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests -> change it from 4 to 10
network.http.proxy.pipelining -> change it from False to True
network.dns.disableIPv6 -> change it from False to True
To change the value of a line, double click on the line. If it is a true/false option it will change automatically if it has a value like the second line above, you will be prompted to enter your value in a dialog window that will pop up.
All credits for this tip go to ubuntugeek
One thing I really loved about karmic, which of course has also been added to lucid and will be added to future releases as well, is the new way to add repositories simple by running
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:PPA
I was missing a command though to purge or remove PPA:s as easy as they made it adding them! That’s when I found out about a simple bash script that does just that!! This script is called PPA-Purge and is now available via GetDeb PPA! Unfortunately, this is good news only for lucid users.. If you are still a Karmic user, please proceed to the end of this post for a link to PPA Purge’s karmic version (although I think it’s an older one).
So what exactly does PPA Purge do? Well, taken from launchpad
“This package provides a bash shell script capable of automatically downgrading all packages in a given PPA back to the ubuntu versions”
Simply put, it can be used to remove a PPA and everything that was installed from that PPA and then reinstall the original packages from the official Ubuntu repositories.
GetDeb repository
To add the GetDeb repository to your sources list simply download and install this .deb file (It will add the repositories to your sources list, add the key etc.)
Install PPA Purge
If you are a lucid user and want to install PPA Purge, just run
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
If you are a karmic user, there is an older version of PPA Purge here
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx has finally been released!!
Head over to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu and get your copy asap!
For official screenshots and some of it’s main features, click here
The “
Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04” manual/guide has now been released and is available for download!
It’s a beginners guide for the Ubuntu operating system and aims to help it’s users become familiar with everyday tasks. It has easy to follow instructions and as it’s authors states, “it is suitable for all levels of experience”.
Features
- Easy to understand – our manual has step by step instructions and is jargon-free
- A picture is worth a thousand words – lots of screenshots to show you how to do tasks
- All in one place – conveniently located in one file, so you don’t have to look all over the web for help
- Progressive learning curve – start with the basics, and learn as you work through each chapter
- Dozens of languages – translated into more than 52 languages, including localized screenshots
- CC-BY-SA licensing – download, modify, reproduce and share as much as you like
- No cost – our documents are all written by Ubuntu community members and there is no charge to use them
- Printer friendly – we have a version optimized for printing to save the trees
- Troubleshooting section – to help you solve common Ubuntu problems quickly
Download
The manual can be downloaded as a PDF for free at http://ubuntu-manual.org/downloads!
As a former windows user and with winamp as main music player for years, one thing I missed when I moved to ubuntu and using rhythmbox was the “enqueue in winamp” feature when right-clicking on music files.
Almost a year ago, I found out about a nautilus plugin that would add this feature for using with rhythmbox. The only problem was, it wouldn’t work on folders and if the filename of a simple music file had special characters, all files would fail to be added on rhythmbox queue list. Three days ago, Seemanta, the developer of this plugin, announced an update to the plugin that as he states “now can handle folders recursively and also embedded special characters within file names.”
This is wonderful news and of course I have already downloaded and tested this new version!
To install the plugin, follow these few steps:
1. Install python-nautilus
sudo apt-get install python-nautilus
2. In case you have the old version of the plugin, remove it before you install the new one
rm ~/.nautilus/python-extensions/add-to-rhythmbox.py
3. Download the new version
wget http://seemanta.net/code/Nautilus_plugin/add-to-rhythmbox_V02.py
4. Create a folder for nautilus python extentions
mkdir ~/.nautilus/python-extensions
5. Move the plugin to the folder you created in previous step
mv add-to-rhythmbox_V02.py ~/.nautilus/python-extensions/
6. Restart nautilus
nautilus -q
To read the original post and follow Seemanta’s blog, click here
Hello and welcome to my digital home!
After some time off due to studies, connection problems etc., I am now back and fully charged! The few posts I had made are unfortunately gone but I am pretty sure I’ve made some backups so I will try and find them and re-post.
As you can see, I have added some new menus, a mail form in the “Contact”-page and will be adding some new plugins in the next few days. As soon as I will get those few things fixed, I will start posting again, about ubuntu, coding, netbooks and phones, gadgets and other things of interest to me. Well I guess you’ll have to wait and see for yourself.. :p
Once again welcome to my d-home and have a nice stay!