Firefox 3rc1

Long time since last post - thought I’d welcome FF3rc1. They are getting there!
Installing Firefox in Debian is not as straight forward as in Ubuntu due to Iceweasel and something about copyrighted (not GNU) firefox logo (or whatever). I downloaded the source from mozilla.com and run Firefox in the directory. So it’s not really installed [...]

Open a Firefox-url with an application in Wine

Scenario
I want to view a .lin file with the BBO-client, installed in wine under linux, when I click a link to a .lin file in Firefox.
Create a script which is used as a launcher in Firefox - example openlin.sh
#!/bin/bash
loc=”C:\\bbo\\NetBridgeVu.exe”
par=`winepath -w “$*”`
wine “$loc” “$par”
exit 0
Be sure to make it executable chmod +x openlin.sh.
Next time you [...]

Turn off Firefox 3 urlbar autocompletion

This annoyed me simply too much. It actually made me startup a wordpress blog where I can post my own personal tips - mostly for myself, just to remember!
Everytime I started writing an url, firefox came up with several suggestion based upon history and bookmarks. This got to stop!
Goto: about:config, find browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set value [...]