On the Lookout

While looking for ways to enable flash in my 64bit version of Firefox 3 beta 2 on Fedora 8 and having no luck with the instructions from fedorafaq.de, I finally came across a french site. Although I do not speak French I recognize commands (they are still in English) and some words look familiar; I ended up on this page and tried to make sense of it.

Land in Sight

First I uninstalled everything related to firefox, flash, and plugins. Then I added another repository to yum:
su -
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/remi-fedora.repo

Next comes importing remi’s GnuPG key, so yum and rpm wont complain:
cd /tmp
wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

We are getting there! Now we install Firefox 3 beta 2 from remi’s repository:
yum --enable remi-test install firefox3

Finally, we are following the fedorafaq again:
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper
mozilla-plugin-config

Just to be on the safe side I ran the last command as normal user again:
mozilla-plugin-config

it works, it works

After this I started Firefox 3 from the Application Menu and typed about:plugins into the address bar. And lo and behold, it showed flash was loaded. Finally I can view flash films in my favorite browser.

Hello everyone,

my first topic on nrrd.de is about putting a website in maintenance mode, not usuable for anyone except you.

Firefox is good

I have been using firefox for a while now. It is a good webbrowser. I like how one can tweak with extension. This flexibility is a big plus.

BUT! It is also teh shit

Who thought that the days of the command line have been counted, might be wrong.

In the days of iPhones pooping popping up on every website and impressing the crowd with an unique user interface, Alex Faaborg, who recently joined Mozilla as User Experience Designer, wrote some interesting things about it on the mozilla blog.
I use the Mac application Quicksilver myself a lot – the combination of command line (or as geeks refer to as “CLI” – go and look it up yourself) and GUI is the most powerfull I’ve experienced so far for the shorter commands. For longer commands I tend to go back to the terminal (started with quicksilver of course).

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