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wednesday, 23 april 2025
... in thunderbird opening links in firefox again! TIL u does undo , but ...

saturday, 25 may 2024
Firefox Firefox -> Settings -> Fonts -> Advanced -> and then untick allow pages to choose their own fonts, this allows PDF to render better in the browser. Firefox Issues Caused By This Change So while this setting improved font rendering in PDF files it result in "fl" instead of a magnifying glass icon … so undoing the advice above fixes the icon… User Agent NS&I where playing silly buggers again, where their authenication was not working in Firefox, so need to play with UserAgent settings…

wednesday, 13 december 2023
Popover API Popover API allows you to display elements on top of the page content, this works in Chrome but has be enable in Firefox in versions after 114. Using the about:config preferences, dom.element.popover.enabled needs to be switched from false to true Great comment on Cohost for dealing with pesky sites: location "/forbidden/path/" { block return 302 "http://hil-speed.hetzner.com/10GB.bin" } A short block for httpd.conf .

wednesday, 22 november 2023
... thunderbird now opens links in firefox rather than opening an empty browser ...

wednesday, 14 september 2022
... mozilla/firefox/user.default/pref.js firefox debugging ...

tuesday, 28 december 2021
Creating a simple webserver with while & nc The script: #! /bin/sh # Simple Web Server - Works on OpenBSD # based on @antonmedv webserver: # https://twitter.com/antonmedv/status/1474838597991813127 while :; do nc -Nl 1088 <<EOF HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html <html> <head><title>Simple NC Web</title></head> <body> <h1> Current date is $(date) </h1> </body> </html> EOF done Shell Script Debugging This shell script was giving me an syntax error:`while' unmatched this was due to a missing done in the script. shellcheck is an excellent resource for checking shell scripts. CSS Ctrl + F5 to force CSS reload in Firefox. css shell

sunday, 30 july 2017
Connections API">Nearby An Google API for peer-to-peer networking using various radios. Send Private, encrypted file sharing from Firefox / Mozilla. api file

saturday, 16 july 2016
... testing I knew that siren and firefox triggered collisions: doas ktrace - ...

monday, 13 june 2016
... following line in: urlCommand "firefox -new-tab '%s'" then changed my ...

thursday, 19 november 2015
firefox firefox : amd64 ports ports

friday, 19 september 2014
... deviantART gMail in a Browser : using firefox, mutt and vte_plugin. ...

thursday, 15 may 2014
Alverstoke Juniors igor igor is an automated proofreading tool for documentation files. Spell Checking in Firefox and Thunderbird Noticed that spell checking is working again but the fix is local to OpenBSD - the underlying bug is reported here .

saturday, 12 april 2014
... Series Round 2: Cyclopark, Kent firefox-29.0beta5 make fake failed with ...

thursday, 16 january 2014
Tor To use tor with chrome - set up polipo proxy server and then started chrome with: port:fred ~> chrome --proxy-server="http://localhost:8123" Although you can use Tor directly with Firefox which is the recommended set up. Year 8 Parents Evening

thursday, 24 october 2013
... /applications/ and ensured that firefox was pointing to the right place ...

monday, 14 october 2013
Firefox & Thunderbird Spell Checking Broken Versions 24.0 of both Firefox and Thunderbird are broken on OpenBSD with regard to spell checking this has been broken since versions 23: ports@ and the bug fix that was supposed to fix it dictionaries does not solve the issue… Adding the new preference of spellchecker.dictionary_path did not change the behaviour where it is not using the dictionaries that it has found. More fighting with ktrace to see if I can work out why … time to get my mutt foo up to speed :~) bugs

tuesday, 8 february 2011
... dic files to /usr/local/mozilla-firefox/dictionaries/ also seemed to ...

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