Copy text without formatting (as plain text) in Firefox

Ever wanted to copy and paste text from a website without the need for its formatting, e.g. copying some colored text with large font from a website and pasting it inside your gmail account? If so, then this add-on is for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/134

After installing and restarting your firefox, right-click on any selected text and choose "Copy as plain text" and then paste it anywhere.

Install Google Gears on Firefox on Ubuntu Karmic

So simple:

1. Don't install from the website, it will - till the time of this article - give you an error message that your browser isn't supported
2. Install the "gears" package, e.g. open a terminal and type "sudo apt-get install gears" 
3. Restart your browser
4. QED :)

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

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 IT! It worked like a charm.

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

1. Go to www.firefox.com and download the latest stable version available (3.5.4 right now)
2. Decompress the file to any location you desire (/home/aamr/firefox in my case)
3. Delete the symbolic link "/usr/bin/firefox-3.5.4"
4. Create a new symbolic link to point to your newly downloaded firefox (you must use sudo or login as root): "sudo ln -s /home/aamr/firefox-3.5.4/firefox /usr/bin/firefox"

After I did this, I found out that my Java plugin is not there when I type "about:plugins"!!, I found that I should point to the java plugin from my newly installed firefox plugins folder (/home/aamr/firefox-3.5.4/plugins), so I created a symbolic link pointing to my Java plugin (after navigating to "/home/aamr/firefox-3.5.4/plugins":

"ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so libnpjp2.so"

Restart firefox and you're done.

Firefox + Adblock Plus + Java Plugin Crash Problem Solution

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:

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# rm /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so # ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/

How to fix Java plugin in Firefox (DRAFT)

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.so
4 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

Foxyproxy ROCKS!

I'll explain later :), just know that if you use a lot of proxies in multiple client locations, schools, universities ...etc, then Foxyproxy for Firefox is definitely the solution for you.

Get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2464

Adblock Plus Bug Fixed: No more Java Applets Crashes

Adblock plus was causing a very annoying crash whenever you run ANY website with a Java applet embedded!

Starting from the V1.0.1, this bug is finally fixed and for those who removed the adblock plus plugin from Firefox or the Java plugin for Firefox can now get both back safely, Hakuna Matata :-)

4 Firefox Add-ons that I cannot live without

1. DownloadThemAll: A very nice download manager with resume and massive download support.
2. Adblock plus: Ad blocker that makes pages load much faster by filtering ads from any websites you visit, you can also add more entries to its list of blocked items. Enjoy Surfing without ads!
3. Mouse Gestures Redox: Do everything using the mouse! Go back, go forward, open a new tab, close a tab, move between tabs, zoom in and out & a lot more!
4. Foxmarks: Sync your bookmarks and even your passwords across different browsers, you will no more lose your bookmarks!

All of the above plugins are free! Enjoy!

How to Switch Page Direction in Firefox 3

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 menu option "Switch Page Direction"! I then did some googling and I found out how:

1) in the URL, type "about:config"
2) In the "Filter:" text box, type "bidi.browser.ui"
3) The "bidi.browser.ui" entry was set to "false" in the "value" column. Change it to "True"
4) Restart Firefox
5) Right-click and you'll find it there :)
6) Enjoy!

Firefox ROCKS! Firefox Profiles

I have just disovered a feature that I needed sooooooooooo much @ work when having to access multiple networks with different proxies; this feature is 'Profiles'. You can have many Firefoxes on the same OS :), each one with totally different settings, plugins, proxy, homepage, passwords, history...etc, here are the steps (for Ubuntu):

1. Close ALL open Firefox windows
2. Open a terminal and type "firefox -ProfileManager"
3. Create new profiles as you need and don't forget to unselect the option of not prompting in order to be prompted for the profile you need each time you start firefox
4. Enjoy!
   

Firefox Add-ons: Video DownloadHelper

I used to download videos from YouTube and similar sites using the plugin provided by Real Player 11, but I couldn't use it on Linux, and so, I searched for another tool, and what a surprise :), I found a very nice one that's availabe as a Firefox add-on, and it works like a charm:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

Enjoy downloading your favorite videos :), now I feel really tired and need a nap, see you :)