With the arrival of the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta I figured it was a good time to run some benchmarks on the major web browsers available for Windows. I chose to run the Acid3 Test and Google’s V8 Benchmark. The Acid3 Test checks to see if a browser properly renders a page according to web …
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The beta version of Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is out and available for download. The process I’m going to show is to install the beta without removing your current installation. This is just a basic testing setup. If you want to do a true full install, follow the directions in the Ubuntu documentation. First off, download …
Continue reading Install the Firefox 3.5 Beta in LinuxAlthough it’s possible to create separate login profiles on Windows, it’s often inconvenient when sharing a computer with other household members to start a whole new login session when someone just wants to quickly access their webmail or homepage. A more convenient solution is to create separate user profiles in Firefox to manage different homepages, …
Continue reading How To Create Multiple Firefox Profiles in WindowsWeb designers in the multimedia business have been slow to embrace open standards. Most websites feature content in the proprietary mp3, wmv, or Adobe Flash formats. In order to get many multimedia files to work with Ubuntu you need to enable the Medibuntu repositories. So fire up your handy, dandy terminal and enter the following …
Continue reading Install Multimedia Codecs in Ubuntu 8.04Although it’s possible to create separate login profiles on both Windows and Linux, it’s often inconvenient when sharing a computer with other household members to start a whole new login session when someone just wants to quickly access their webmail or homepage. A more convenient solution is to create separate user profiles in Firefox to …
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