I have just updated to newest Ubuntu. Here are some points of interest:
Thes removed the shutdown option from system menu. You now HAVE to use the stupid applet. IS this a GNOME or an Ubuntu decision. Personally i dont like this applet for shutting down. I always used the system menu. The applet looks so [...]
I suggest that people start working on an alternative GNOME panel now. I have seen some suggestions on a GNOME wiki page, but I think most directions are very wrong. Like what you see here:
Essentially these are imitations of the fancy Mac panel. But I think that the Max panel does [...]
The missing WPA support was something many users where missing on OpenBSD. I now tell some practical steps on how to connect to a WPA encrypted wireless network with OpenBSD. Again – and as often OpenBSD makes it simpler than other OSes. Firstly – during install OpenBSD gives the opportunity to configure networks. I had [...]
You might say: well its only for Windows – but thats not the problem. Linux should be ok to run a Windows application with WINE – or even can download via Linux and than have a Windows machine access the setup file. But Google seems to either think that Linux has no WINE for running [...]
I have read the comic about Googles new chrome browser and I must day I am impressed. It targets some points I like to see in browsers:
They call it “omnibar” – others say Opera was the first – personally I know it from Epiphany for ages – and Epi still is ahead in the implementation [...]
As Epiphany on Ubuntu constantly crashes with Flash I needed to go back to usage of Firefox. Its so complicated t use, although it partly has added some Epiphany features like when you type it searches in your bookmarks – what Epi providied since ages. I still dont have illigent search like on Epi where [...]
I had the experience that on GNOME on OpenBSD strangely Firefox is started as default. This shoudl not be the case as Epiphany is the default. One way to set it is when you start “gconf-.editor” and browse to the section where you might alos find firefox:
and change it right away to “epiphany %s”. This [...]
I use this post to just list some hints how insecure Firefox can get:
Google, Yahoo, Facebook Extensions Put Millions of Firefox Users At Risk
Is Mozilla Firefox secure (and advanced) enough?
Some other things I like to critisize:
This is a good thing: Actually FF now uses Epiphanys model of accessing (via “Smart Location bar” ) bookmarks – bookmarks, tags and history are searched while you type. Also bookmarks now get tags instead that they are stored in folders. Whats funny about that is that this was [...]
I have taken a deeper look into Ubuntu. Those are some things I find weird:
Firefox is the default browser. I think this is ugly, but anyway… if you try to install Epiphany the problem is you can only install Epiphany without the extensiosn via the graphical installer. As this is the suggested method this means [...]
