Monday, July 13, 2009

google chromium browser setup.

sudo su
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main #chromium-browser" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

use command sudo dolphin to copy ".SO" files enable Flash support:
cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins


Note: this command may only copy A dead link...
sudo ln -s ../../flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

For extensions: Start browser with the following commands.
chromium-browser --enable-greasemonkey --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions

Note browser may lock out bash shell dir listing use:
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/extensions

browse to chrome://extensions/ to check installation and about:plugins..

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

ubuntu Acer setup Notes

How to drastically speed up Firefox Make firefox store its cache in the /tmp directory - which when we we have moved it to a tmpfs according to this wiki is *faster*.

* Firefox 3.x uses a sqlite db that creates many write accesses, so this can reduce it:

1. In Firefox go to (type as url) "about:config", right click, add new string browser.cache.disk.parent_directory“ with value "/tmp/firefox"

2. In Firefox change options/security/ and disable phishing if you dare. - Your firefox will run even faster then but won't warn you about phishing any more so take care!

Alternatively, to speed up Firefox further, enter "about:config" (without the quotes) as an url in Firefox, then change the following settings:

// disable disk and offline cache
set browser.cache.disk.enabled: false
set browser.cache.disk.capacity: 0
set browser.cache.offline.enable: false
set browser.cache.offline.capacity: 0

// just as a precaution
add browser.cache.disk.parent_directory: /tmp

// Apparently safebrowsing slows things down - disable at your own risk!
set browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled: false
set browser.safebrowsing.enabled: false
set network.prefetch-next: false

// don't show suggestions in the search bar
browser.search.suggest.enabled: false

// don't spellcheck as I type
layout.spellcheckDefault: 0

Well now I cannot remember if I have already recored this information on this web-blog or not. Well I really have to find the time to overlook my past entries.