Category Archives: Web browser

Opening Local HTML Files in Opera under Android 11

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Alan German

I use a local HTML file to provide a menu of my most-used web sites as a multi-column table. The trick with Android is discovering how to open such a local file in the browser since the solution seems to … Continue reading →

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Removing a “missing” PPA

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Alan German

Running Update Manager resulted in an error message to the effect that a Personal Package Archive (PPA) for the Opera web browser, was missing and/or unavailable.

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Setting the window size and location for Opera

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Alan German

For a number of years my web browser of choice has been Firefox; however, the release of Version 57 (Quantum) broke all the “legacy” add-ons that I was using. (See: “Farewell past, happy dreams of days gone by”) My solution … Continue reading →

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Toggling JavaScript on and off in Firefox

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Alan German

As everyone is aware, modern web sites are full of advertisements. I can live with (and pretty well ignore) static adverts. The things that really drive me crazy are video clips – and especially the associated audio tracks – that … Continue reading →

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Firefox add-on has been disabled

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Alan German

Today’s issue in Linux Mint – or more specifically in Firefox Version 43.0 running under Linux Mint – is a warning message indicating that an add-on(s) has been disabled.

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Finding text in Firefox

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Alan German

Sometimes when trying to find a text string in Firefox, by using the Edit – Find command, it’s difficult to locate the result on the screen because of the text highlighting colour. One of the things I really like about … Continue reading →

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Firefox doesn’t start in Linux Mint 17 [Solved]

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Alan German

It never fails to amaze me how the Linux community comes up with obscure fixes to obscure problems – well, at least, obscure problems/solutions to me!

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Setting a default page for a new browser tab

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Alan German

My recent problem with Firefox under Linux Mint 17 (Firefox doesn’t start in Linux Mint 17) that resulted in a move to Chrome had me looking for a browser extension (add-on) that would let me set a default page to … Continue reading →

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Firefox doesn’t start in Linux Mint 17

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Alan German

After installing the new release of Linux Mint on my development machine, I found that Firefox won’t start. Navigating to Menu – Internet – Firefox has absolutely no visible effect. However, running firefox in Terminal produces the error message: “GLib-CRITICAL … Continue reading →

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Downloads Progress in Firefox

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Alan German

It seems that every time a program is updated these days some useful feature disappears. This has recently been the case for the Firefox web browser, where for some inexplicable reason, not only is the downloads progress bar not displayed … Continue reading →

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