Tag: Ubuntu
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Add a feed to Liferea from Firefox
Being a linux newbie, I haven’t had much luck finding how to configure Firefox to use an external RSS client. Here’s how: You can go under Edit->Preferences and choose the Tab Feeds. There you choose Subscribe to the feed using and click on the button Choose Application and choose /usr/bin/liferea-add-feed Thanks to Ralph‘s instructions, I…
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My first ubuntu bug report
I have had a problem for a while with the update-manager. I finally got round to entering my bug report, so I am now the proud owner of an ubuntu bug! https://launchpad.net/bugs/84961 Just have to wait and see whether its me that has broken something or an actual bug.
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Got my music collection back
So how did I lose it in the first place? Well I didn’t really, just not had good access to it. The default player in Ubuntu, Rhythmbox, was giving me problems, it was pretty slow and lacked a few nice features like random playlists. (It does do semi-random play-lists, where you enter keywords, but not…
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One less Windows PC in the world
This was a while ago now, but back over Christmas I got rid of a buggy install of Windows on Mum and Dad’s PC, and installed Ubuntu for them instead. I hope they get on all right with it, Dad seemed a little worried for a while, we had a go with the liveCD before…
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How to load Web site faster in Mozilla Firefox
The title says it all! I guess this applies to any install of Firefox, not just a linux version. Check it out, mine was almost unusable before making these changes. Begs the question why the settings weren’t defaults….? Update: Following a little more digging, also found these quite useful: lifehacker.com: top firefox 2 config tweaks…