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A few tips regarding firefox/iceweasel's new tab page

Posted 03-17-2015 at 06:15 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kadha

If you wish to have more than 9 tabs on the new tab page, you just have to

- open the config page > in the url bar, type "about:config"
- agree that you're doing this at your own risk
- search for the word "tab", you'll get a bunch of entries
- change the value of browser.newtabpage.columns for your desired number of columns (for instance 4)
- change the value of browser.newtabpage.rows for your desired number of rows
...
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Mozilla seems to work okay with Chrome's flash player

Posted 02-21-2015 at 10:16 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 02-23-2015 at 04:44 AM by the dsc

I'm not really a fan of flash, but since I'm trying to switch from Chrome to Iceweasel, which seems to be less sluggish in my machine, and I don't like the idea of using a plugin from the late 90s when I have to, I decided to try the wrap-around trick/plugin I've found. It seems to be working normally, as fas as I can tell.

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05/fresh...per-flash.html

It had a few more dependencies than stated in the how-to, but the make/configure output...
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REAL Firefox on Debian

Posted 06-29-2010 at 07:11 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 02-20-2021 at 05:07 AM by craigevil

Firefox has been back in Debian for a while.
Please see the Debian wiki Firefox page https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox
No Real Reason to follow this guide, it is way past outdated

This is all I do to use Firefox rather than Iceweasel.
1) download Firefox
2) extract to my /home/Downloads
3) symlink plugins by doing:
Code:
ln -s /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins /home/craig/Downloads/firefox/plugins
4) open iceweasel with iceweasel -profilemanager and...
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