I’m sure I’m late to this party…but what the heck, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 700m) and it’s great! The laptop, which was a nifty little machine 4 years ago (12″ screen, 2Gig proc, 1Gig RAM) was so slow it was useless – I mean, it took 30 seconds [...]
Archive for the ‘Firefox’ Category
Ubuntu is the bomb…
December 20, 2009
Firefox on Leopard, “Bad Length” problem
March 28, 2008
Getting those annoying “Bad Length” messages with Firefox on Leopard? Here’s the fix: Go into System Preferences Select “Accounts” Uncheck the “Enable Parental Controls” checkbox. Firefox will now work with db info. Huzzah!
Firefox Memory Leak
September 6, 2007
Firefox is an unbelievable memory hog – which is why it crashes a lot. We all love it for its extensions/add-ons (I’m a big Foxmarks fan myself), but they frequently cause memory leaks and lead to crashes; one of the worst culprits is the extremely useful (for developers, that is) Firebug. They recommend turning it [...]