Firefox

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/firefogg_transcoding_videos_...

GNU/Linux has never been short of audio and video players, but they live in a world of multiple codecs, chief culprit amongst them being MP3, AAC, WMA and (Adobe) Flash. I say “culprits” because they are not free and open codecs. They are encumbered by patents; most websites with embedded audio/video use them and most of the people who view them are also using other patented software: Windows. GNU/Linux is a good alternative and all distros come bundled with free and open multimedia alternatives too: Ogg. You would not be surprised that these players can handle Ogg but what if I told you that Mozilla’s Firefox browser could not only handle this codec but could be used also to transcode videos to that format? Interested? Read on.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1352580

A new command in Karmic makes it easy to add a repository for a ppa and its key.
As we are adding the ubuntu-mozilla-daily ppa this will always give you access to the latest Firefox build.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1333077

I forget where, but I came across this guide and tried it. Wow it makes a huge difference in speed. Please know what you are doing first, tis why I hate posting these tips, but this one really helped my pc.

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/open_messaging_open_web_inst...

By the time you read this Karmic Koala will have been released to a waiting world, but I couldn’t wait. A felicitous combination of a desire to do a distribution upgrade to the release candidate and a Twitter arriving on my laptop giving me a link to Raindrop kept me busy for the day. I was intrigued by Raindrop and having used other Mozilla lab experimental software I was determined to see what all the hype was about. If you like the idea of combining a tool for aggregating Twitter, e-mail, RSS and other social Web 2.0 stuff with free and open standards then read on.

Question:

I recently bought a PC from Zazz with Ubuntu installed on it.
For the most part it is going very well.
Got most of the applications I need up and running, but I'm having some trouble with flash videos in Firefox.

This is my first time using Linux as my primary OS, so although I do know some stuff, I'm far from an expert.

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/when_windows_7_ships_without...

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 7 would not ship with Internet Explorer 8 within the European Union. This is to comply with EU demands following the anti-trust case some time back. On the immediate face of this seem like good news for users of other browsers — but is it?

To install the latest Firefox 3.5 (final) or Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu, open a terminal and:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add these two lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozil... jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozil... jaunty main

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1155912

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1139391

I proposed this idea in Brainstorm and got a nice reply from a developer.

simply type in

about:config

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-765-1 April 28, 2009

firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-1313

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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Ubuntu 8.10

Ubuntu 9.04