Sun/Oracle Java JDK 7 may be required to run some applications that are not compatible with OpenJDK which can be installed using package manager in Fedora 15. Here is how to do it. Open the terminal and use the following commands:
To install java browser plugin for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, go to Add/Remove Software, search for icedtea-web and install it or run the following in your terminal: Continue Reading
Here are few things you can do after installing Fedora 15 to make the experience better. You may have to enable sudo to follow some of the tips or you can run the commands in terminal by logging in as root (su). The following are in no particular order. Feel free to skip the ones you do not need.
Firefox 6 alpha 1 nightly has been available for quite a while now. You can download and install it on Fedora and other RPM based distros from the Firefox Nightly page. Search for the latest rpm and download it and then install it by double clicking on the RPM. To launch it, go to Internet menu and launch “Nightly”.
Firefox 4 has been released recently and it is not available via update manager in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. The Ubuntu Mozilla Daily Build PPA provides it but it always the latest daily build and not the stable version.
I am using Fedora Core 14 and have installed Selenium Module for PHP. I was not able to run PHPUnit tests on Yii Framework. I tried running Selenium server 1.0.1 and upgrade to 1.0.3 solved the problem.
Firefox 4 is currently in beta and not available in the Fedora repository. However, it can be installed by adding Spot repository from FedoraPeople. To install, open up the terminal and run the following from terminal as root (to be root, run su and enter root password): Continue Reading
The latest stable version of Firebug is 1.6 which is compatible with Firefox 3.x. If you have Firefox 4 as your default browser, you may be miss this extension. Firebug 1.7 is under development and the latest version available at the time of this writing is 1.7X.0a7. You can install it from Firebug 1.7 releases page. Note that it is still in alpha stage of development and may have several bugs.
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and had been using the following programs for downloading stuff from the Internet:
I am using Firefox 3.6.6 on my Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat Alpha and wanted to experiment with it.
Firefox uses the profile directory to read and write settings, bookmarks, saved passwords, extension preferences etc. When Firefox is launched, it reads those from profile directory and constantly accesses and writes information to the directory. I thought keeping this in RAM could make Firefox faster. To do so, I wrote a small script that copies the profile to RAMDISK and launches Firefox with that profile directory.