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Tips: Disabling Firefox 3 smart location bar.

December 19th, 2008 No comments

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If you, like me, have an old fileserver then you should use this trick because the Firefox 3 smart location bar can really rape your hard disk [valley girl talk mode]…like totally…[/valley girl talk mode]

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Downgrade to Firefox 2 in Ubuntu

May 11th, 2008 No comments

If you use many firefox extensions, then you can understand the meaning of this tutorial.
Many extensions, especially the “non-institutional” ones are not upgraded to firefox 3 so they do not work.

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Save your Firefox cache flv files (Macromedia Flash Video)

October 23rd, 2007 4 comments

Today we will see how to save your flv taken from your Firefox cache. Due to using some specific console commands this tutorial is useful only for a Unix-like system, not for Windows. I’m sorry P
Before starting let’s say there are tools, like Clive or Videodownload (firefox plugin), made for similar purpose but they work in a different way:

  • they works on specific sites only (like Youtube), and that’s a problem because some sites are not supported
  • If you have some bandwith limit issue, Clive and Videodownload force you to re-download the video

Especially the second point, to me, it’s a problem because I use an UMTS connection and it works using a limited bandwith per month and generally a flv file consumes some MBs.
Let’s see my way.
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