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Solved: iceweasel on xmonad won’t play HTML5 video fullscreen
New problem this, and it took some google-fu to find out a solution. I recently upgraded Iceweasel (the unbranded Firefox) on my Debian Jessie to the latest beta. I use xmonad as my windowmanager.After the upgrade it was impossible to make HTML5 video go fullscreen. In fact F11 had stopped working …
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Browser tabs are not a do-list
Today, something of a rant. Or at least a reminder to myself not to do something that I do all too often. You see, I keep tabs open in my browser. Sometimes for weeks on end. Why, I don’t know, at least on a rational level. Whenever I try to close a tab, I get an overpowering sense of panic. …
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Tip: Get rid of visited sites thumbnails in Firefox 13 and up
Since version 13 of Firefox and Iceweasel, it does an annoying thing when you open a new tab. It shows you thumbnails of the sites you’ve visited the most. How very chrome. And how frankly depressing. I don’t want to be reminded, Firefox! Fortunately it isn’t too big a d …
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Tip: Get rid of the firefox/iceweasel inspect element menu option
Here is a small annoyance with an easy solution. The newer versions of Firefox and Iceweasel have added an inspect element tool to the right click context menu. It certainly look very pretty and will be of use for some folks. But its confusing for people like me who use Firebug. You see Firebug …
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Iceweasel/Firefox 4 or 5 on Debian Squeeze
I don't know if you heard about it but Fabrice Bellard recently made a Javascript PC emulator that could boot a full linux with emacs and vi and even a c compiler. Which is insane. I wanted to check it out, but the core Iceweasel on Debian Squeeze (3.5) isn't up to the job, Fabrice has coded it t …
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5 Best Firefox/Iceweasel Privacy Plugins
Activists and other people are frequently targetted for surveillance by power in its various forms - governments, police, media and corporate power. Increasingly this surveillance takes place on line. And so it makes sense to set up your firefox browser to be as resistent as possible to such surve …
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SSH Tip: Proxy your browser with SSH
I was just now trying to see how the New Internationalist website might look from Canada, to test some GeoIP set up that we’re working on. So I used a trick that I mainly use when I’m browsing the interwebs from public WiFi networks. Given the emergence of tools like Firesheep, whic …
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