Tag Archives: Firefox

An Excellent Solution to websites that don’t save the username and password

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

A very nice tutorial that I read here,and it then led me to here, it’s a Javascript script that enables Firefox to remember usernames and passwords for some websites that orders the browser not to remember it, and I LOVE … Continue reading →

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How To Download and Use the latest stable version of Firefox (from www.firefox.com) in Ubuntu Jaunty

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

Go to http://www.firefox.com and download the latest stable version available (3.5.4 right now) Decompress the file to any location you desire (/home/aamr/firefox in my case) Delete the symbolic link “/usr/bin/firefox-3.5.4” Create a new symbolic link to point to your newly … Continue reading →

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Firefox + Adblock Plus + Java Plugin Crash Problem Solution

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

At last, my firefox setup is perfected: (Source: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4422) This issue was SOLVED here,comment #6 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501173#c6. Change the plugin firefox uses for java, from libjavaplugin_oji.so to libnpjp2.so.Done. For a system wide change: Code: Select all # rm /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so# ln … Continue reading →

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How to fix Java plugin in Firefox (DRAFT)

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.14/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so aamr@aamr-laptop:/usr/lib/firefox-3.5.4pre/plugins$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.14/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73 2009-08-27 11:52 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.14/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

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How to Switch Page Direction in Firefox 3

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

In Ubuntu 8.10 after installing Firefox 3, I received an e-mail that contained a mix of Arabic and English words and since the default text direction is left-to-right, it was very difficult to read and I couldn’t find the context … Continue reading →

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