* Posts by Alex Smith

6 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jan 2008

Firefox sweeps away carpet bombing bug

Alex Smith

@Broken extensions/themes

That'll be the extention/theme developers needing to adjust the max value for the install version... that's not mozilla's fault.

Only one extention broke here, thanks to VMWare having not updated it for a while... Oh look... the developers of the extention are at fault.

If you -really- need to use them, read up on how to overide the max value on the xpi.

Alex Smith
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@Here we go again

And you think windows update doesn't patch IE? lol....

At least Firefox -tells- you when there's an update -before- your computer gets owned.

US retailers start pushing $20 Ubuntu

Alex Smith

already been done...

"I reckon Cannonical need to make a 'notebook PC for your gran' ..... with hardware all tested to work, no worried with drivers, hardware conflicts."

Already been done, there's a number of offical partners out there (Including Dell - http://tinyurl.com/39m5sr)

@ Adrian (Thursday 10th July 2008 15:11 GMT)

If your unable to click through the dialog that comes up when you go to a site that has flash player embedded to install Adobe Flash (or Gnash) then you really should just put your PC back in it's box, return it to PC World (where people like you seem to buy machines) and tell them your too stupid to use a computer and that you'd like a refund.

All it requires for flash is for you to accept the licence agreement and click next a few times, works for my family quite nicely.

Firefox 3: now available bug-free, say devs

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@AC: hope they dont bug you about this upgrade

"After all if I wanted it to suggest a load of crap results instead of just showing places I have been, I would just goto msn search"

Just shows that you have been visiting crap then :) all it does it keep track of what sites you have already visited, it's not a search bar (I checked) - thats the job of the text box just to the right of it, maybe you were typing addresses in there? *chuckle*

Either disable it in about:config or install the old bar plugin (which I haven't used so YMMV) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

Fedora 9 - an OS that even the Linux challenged can love

Alex Smith

@ BKB

"Notice that the Fedora / Gnome people have even foisted a beta testing version of the web browser into this, which is known not to function properly."

As does Ubuntu, and yet you didn't bitch about them doing it. 3b5 has been fine for me in day to day use - both on Linux and Windows.

100Mbit/s sewer broadband rollout coming your way

Alex Smith
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Maybe...

this is just going to be another "flash in the pan"?