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Obtain Anonymous Browsing with xB Browser
Open Source, Windows; Grab the xB Browser, a Firefox-based browser for anonymous web browsing. It uses the Open source project, Tor to provide anonymity on-line.
Open source lovers are advised to use the free Tor software to defend themselves against traffic analysis, thus obtaining anonymous surfing.
via [Lifehacker]
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Know exactly when Firefox 3 is available in your region
Get to know exactly when Firefox 3 will be available for download in your region. Just as some regions like the Chatham Island- New Zealand are the first to see the new year, time regions like Los Angeles will have the privilege to get Firefox 3 before others. This world time map done by Digital Inspiration shows you when it will be your turn.
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Firefox 3 Download Day
On your marks, get set, go – join Mozilla Firefox in the mission to set a Guinness World Record with Firefox 3, under the category - the most downloaded software in 24 hours.
How do you get set – by pledging to get Firefox 3 during the Download Day. Unfortunately the official date for the launch is still unknown, but with a simple email registration Mozilla will inform you when Firefox 3 is launched – so why not pledge now – get set.
Update; Thur Jun 12, 2008
The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is Tuesday, June 17th, 2008.
Get your fingers ready.
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AnyClient: a no install Browser-based FTP client
If you suddenly need an FTP client, maybe your friend needs a hand, and you don’t have your usb key with one of those portable FTP clients on it, then you’ll certainly go searching Google for one. Fortunately there are many out there, starting from Filezilla, the most renowned Open Source FTP client, to others like FireFTP – an extension of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
With these two free FTP clients, you’ll certainly have to go through the time consuming installation process; with AnyClient – a browser based FTP client, you just need to visit the web page to get started; provided you have Java installed on your Linux box. You can save your sites profile and revisit it later.
AnyClient is free and supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP and WebDAV clients. If you find it optimal, then download the free, installable version available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Solaris platforms.
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How to change your default applications (Mail Client) in a Gnome Desktop
The Gnome desktop comes with a couple of default applications like Evolution Mail, Rhythmbox Music Player, GNOME Terminal and others, but many users give-them-up for other “better” applications. In most cases the non expert Gnome user continues to maintain as default those applications they don’t even use. Examples of users with Evolution Mail as default whilst using Thunderbird are many, just like those who have Rhythmbox Music Player as default but use VLC Media Player (that without any configuration plays DVD, VCD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg) or Amarok, others have the Gnome Terminal as default but use aterm or Terminator.
So how do we get about changing our default applications?
In most cases you can do so from the Preferred Applications manager: System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications
Therein; On the “Internet” tab, simply select “Thunderbird” from the drop down menu. If it is not present then Select “Custom” and type in the command box “thunderbird %s” (without quotes )
If you do not find these menus then you could still make use of the GNOME Configuration Editor.
-> From the command-line run “gconf-editor”
-> Move to /desktop/gnome/applications/url-handlers/mailto
-> Right-click on “command” field and Click on “Edit Key” and modify to thunderbird %s — for example
-> Check the “enable” field
-> Uncheck the “needs_terminal” field
-> Close it and you’re done.
On the “System” tab you can choose “Custom” as your terminal emulator. Enter “terminator” as the command, and “-e” as the execute flag. On GNOME 2.21 or later, “Terminator” will already be an available option, supposing you have “nautilus-open-terminal” package installed.
The nautilus-open-terminal offers a quick launch of the default terminal(in this case Terminator) with a right-click within nautilus or the gnome-desktop area. After installation [sudo aptitude install nautilus-open-terminal] it might be necessary to restart gnome for nautilus-open-terminal to be effective.
On the “Multimedia” tab you can replace Totem Movie Player by simply typing amarok or vlc, after choosing “Custom” in the drop down menu.
Same can be done by Right-clicking on an audio file -> Open With -> Open with Other Application…
In the “Open Window” choose the application you want to use with the audio file.
How to set your preferred Email Client for Firefox in Linux
It could also be very convenient to change default email client for Firefox from Evolution to say Thunderbird or what ever.
-> In Firefox’s Location Bar, type about:config and hit Enter
-> Right-click on the body.
-> From the pop-up menu, select “New” -> “String”
-> In the pop-up dialog box “Enter the preference name”, enter
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
and click “OK”
-> In the pop-up dialog box “network.protocol-handler.app.mailto”, enter /usr/bin/thunderbird (or the filesystem location of your email client ) and click “OK”
To test your new default Firefox email client, go to File -> Send Link and your preferred email client should open.
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Design better Web pages with MeasureIt-GridFox-Colorzilla Firefox extensions
If you’ve ever tried to create or edit a Web page, you know that getting the little details just right can sometimes take a long time. Here are a few Firefox extensions you can add to your toolbox that will help you measure images, align objects on your page, and capture colors quickly and easily.
When you need to know the exact size of your sidebars, headers, and other images in a flash, MeasureIt can tell you. MeasureIt adds a small ruler icon on the left side of the status bar. Clicking on the icon brings up a crosshair cursor; simply move the cursor to the object you want to measure, and drag a box over it. The extension will display the width and height of that object in pixels on the right of the drawn box. To get out of MeasureIt, press the Escape key; the page will turn back to normal.
Grids are helpful for judging distances and spatial relationships, and they help you better align objects, giving you more vital space on your Web page. To make sure the objects you place on your Web page are well-aligned and maintain their position in a grid-based layout, check out GridFox, which displays grids like you’ll find on an image editor such as the GIMP. If you’ve ever used such an image editor, you’ll find GridFox easy to use, intuitive, and straightforward.
By default, GridFox gives you only vertical grids. Go to Tools -> GridFox -> Options to get horizontal grids, change the background colors, change the thickness or color of the grids, and more. One drawback is that it’s a bit tricky to get the grids just where you want them. You may have to change your column and row values time and again to get them right. It would have been great if the grids were also guides so that you could reposition them easily by dragging them. Knowing the width of a Web page helps you place the external grids. You can place your internal grids depending on whether you want your columns to have equal width.
The mix of colors plays an important role in making your Web site stand out. With ColorZilla, you can easily find out exactly what colors are being used on Web pages.
After installation, ColorZilla puts an eyedropper icon on the left side of the status bar. On your Linux Ubuntu Desktop clicking on this icon might generate an error message such as “your platform doesn’t support this feature,” which is the error message I received. You might have to follow a procedure detailed on the Ubuntu forum to resolve this issue.
To pick a color, right-click on the eyedropper icon, zoom into the page so you can better select the color you want, left-click on the icon, and place the crosshair cursor over the color you want to analyze. By default, the RGB and hex color codes are displayed in the status bar, as well as the distance from the last point your mouse highlighted and the element tag. Left-click on the color to capture it onto the ColorZilla color picker palette.
After capturing the color, double-click on the ColorZilla eyedropper to open the color picker palette. There you can modify the color to better suit your needs. ColorZilla also offers a complete color picker tool, as you can find on all image editors. You’ll find a wide range of display options in the Statusbar Format menu. I like being able to view where an element sits in the Document Object Model by toggling the Statusbar Format menu from Options -> Statusbar Format -> dom-path.
ColorZilla also installs the Auto Copy Firefox extension, which permits you to automatically copy selected text to the clipboard. After activating it (navigate to Options -> Auto Copy -> Enabled) you can automatically copy any selected text and paste it wherever you wish with a middle-click of the mouse.
There you have it — three tools that can help you post images and text. MeasureIt helps you to know exactly how much space is allocated for your images. GridFox guarantees that text and images are aligned. ColorZilla can serve you to modify the colors of your post on the fly.
Originally published at linux.com
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Firefox extension - Speed Dial Bookmarks for Firefox
Opera 9.2 users have long known, used and enjoyed the functionality of the Speed Dial which is practically a 9 or more space grid where you can allocate your favorite websites for a faster reference. Each of these sites on the grid are represented by a respective snap-shot of the site.
The Speed Dial extension for Firefox brings exactly all these to Firefox users with a hand-full of new tricks.
Customization begins immediately after the installation with a pop-up window, where you can decide on the quality of the screenshots or add Speed Dial to the toolbar. For better customization move to Tools-> Add-ons -> Speed Dial -> Preferences, where you can set for example keyboard shortcuts under the Controls tab or set the size of the thumbnails under the Thumbnails tabs and so forth.
To get fast access to yours speed dial bookmarks add the Speed Dial button to your toolbar.
Right-click on Firefox Toolbar -> Customize -> Drag the Speed Dial button to the Toolbar -> Done
or simply place this “chrome://speeddial/content” to your location bar.
To quickly add a site to your Speed Dial bookmark goto your Firefox Bookmark -> Set as Speed Dial.
If you like being geeky then add this code your userContent.css ->
#speeddialGrid row:last-child { display: none !important; }
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