Articles from November 2008
Posted by jf on November 24, 2008
As you surf the net, and add all those bookmarks, your list gets longer and longer. Long time ago, a bookmark editor was invented, and is now standard with any browser. As you surf the net, and install all those Firefox add-ons for cool and great stuff, the menus are getting rather long. Same problem, [...]
Categories: Announcements, Firefox, Linux, New products, News, Technical, Winblows
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Tags: add-on, browser, Firefox, Menu editor
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Posted by jf on November 17, 2008
While there are multiple popular browsers, none of them as the entire market, and when one is moving to a new browser, or just wants to try it, the pain of re-entering bookmarks is often a show-stopper. Enter Transmute. A free bookmark converter that works under Windows, with .Net 2.0. It can read/write bookmarks from/to [...]
Categories: Firefox, Technical, Winblows
| Tags: Bookmark, Chromium, Converter, Google Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, Safari
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Posted by jf on November 17, 2008
Hack to enable TraceMonkey in Firefox 3.1 (all platforms)
Categories: Firefox, Linux, Technical, Winblows
| Tags: Engine, firefox 3.1, JavaScript, Linux, TraceMonkey, Windows
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Posted by jf on November 5, 2008
There is a great article on the net, about adding a Gnome context menu to open a shell prompt from inside Nautilus. For those of us who always work on the command line, this is important. Instead of duplicating the code and article content (which is long), I simply link to it here.
Categories: Linux, Technical
| Tags: Context, Linux, Menu, nautilus, prompt, shell
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Posted by jf on November 3, 2008
BootChart is a boot process profiler, which will tell you much about how a Linux box booted, and will help pinpoint the slow or CPU-intensive processes. Since Bootchart is a common utility, it should be available in all major distros. You can also get the actual source code from bootchart.org. Although the site does not [...]
Categories: News
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