Flash content in mobile devices (II)

Just a brief post to remark (in what regards to my previous post) that the add-on to block Flash content is also a must in Firefox if you use it in a netbook like the Acer Aspire One. Those sites filled with lots of tiny Flash boxes make an Intel Atom @ 1.6 Ghz sweat a lot (so netbooks with older processors like the Via in the first EeePC must feel like in hell when having to render that content).

Bye for now! :-)

Acer Aspire One and the danger of installing new packages

I followed the steps provided by Jorge in his blog in order to change Aspire One's default Firefox 2 by the latest Firefox 3 from a repository so it can be updated easily.

The day after I did that, my wife complained to me as she could not check mail anymore. Launching onemail from command line I could see that a shared library was missing (libxpcom_core.so) was missing. What a chance that this is a library included in Firefox 2 and not in Firefox 3 :-)

You can take a look in Jorge's post in his blog as I provided to him the steps to correct this undesired situation (awaiting moderation, at the moment of writing). Besides that shared library, three other ones were missing so you'll have to follow the same steps to have the four files back in the /usr/lib directory of your Linpus copy in the Aspire One.

Firefox 3 already out :-)

After having installed Firefox 3 some days in advance to the Download Day in a Ubuntu machine, now it is time to do it on Windows. The updater available in Firefox itself reports a connection timeout when trying to check whether there is a new version available.

Looks like the Guinness world record is on its way :-)

Firefox 3 already out?

I've just installed Ubuntu 8.04 in a machine. It had Firefox 3 beta 5 installed and 160 packages to update. After the update I find that... I have Firefox 3 installed. Wasn't Firefox Day on June 17th? Are Ubuntu users special to Firefox and thus gifted with the browser in advance? O:-)