Archive for the ‘Mozilla’ Category
Friday, August 18th, 2006
Finally, I found the solution to the Firefox Urdu Font related bug in Dapper. Me, the newbie, the linux illiterate who didn't even know Tux; I solved a bug in an open source software that I am using on my open source operating system.
After upgrading to Dapper, I found that ...
Posted in Dapper, Firefox, Mozilla, Pakistan, Ubuntu, Urdu | 13 Comments »
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Firefox is great but since I visit several websites that Firefox is unable to render properly I have no choice but to find an alternative. I am starting to hate Firefox and forcing myself to love Konqueror and Galeon but still whenever I am using Firefox I feel like using ...
Posted in Dapper, Firefox, KDE, Konqueror, Kubuntu, Linux, Mozilla, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Few days ago, I talked about a bug in Firefox (1.5.0.3 ubuntu dapper) related to the display of Urdu Fonts. On Oreilly Linux Devcenter, Caitlyn Martin discusses problems with Firefox for Linux. In the article titled "Why Is Firefox For Linux So Terribly Broken?" she writes:
I’m currently running Firefox 1.5.0.4 ...
Posted in Firefox, Linux, Mozilla, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Saturday, July 29th, 2006
The only thing which is troubling me with Dapper is some bug with Firefox and Thunderbird. I check many Urdu websites each day, particularly blogs and BBC Urdu. There are two most popular Urdu fonts Nafees Web Naskh and Urdu Naskh Asiatype. Unfortunately Firefox, Thunderbird and Epiphany are unable to ...
Posted in Breezy, Dapper, Epiphany, Firefox, Mozilla, Ubuntu | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Did you know your Open Office has a Game hidden somewhere? Programmers call it Easter Eggs and I just found one from Planet Ubuntu. To activate this game, open a spread sheet in your open office, type the following formula in any cell and press enter:
=Game("StarWars")
A screen like this will ...
Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, Open Office | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
I am now a regular visitor to Ubuntu forums. I find it very exciting to learn the great things I can do with my free Operating system. Few days ago I came across this poll.
What do Ubuntu users feel should be the default web browser in Dapper?
Epiphany
Firefox
Opera
Before switching to Ubuntu/Linux ...
Posted in Epiphany, Firefox, Gnome, Mozilla | No Comments »