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Firebug with Firefox 3 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:42:06 GMT

Several months ago when I first tried out Firefox 3, I found that I couldn't get Firebug to work. At that time, I was still on 7.10 (Gutsy) and just rolled back to Firefox 2 and carried on about my business. Once I upgraded to 8.04 (Hardy), where its default Firefox is FF3, I tried again. I still had failures and no matter which "fix" I came across, I still was never able to open Firebug in a panel, but only in a separate window.

That all changed this morning! I was looking through packages and discovered that there is a Firebug package in the Ubuntu repos. I promptly uninstalled Firebug from the extensions settings in the Firefox and closed my browser. I went to terminal and typed:

$ sudo apt-get install firebug

... I then opened up Firefox 3 and BAM! It works exactly like it should. I have no idea what the difference is in this version of Firebug, but for whatever reason, my problems are solved.

Kid safe browsing with Glubble

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:00:57 GMT

My oldest son is starting to use his computer more and more as of late. He has recently discovered the Super Mario Brothers clone SuperTux, and after beating all the levels has started experimenting with the built-in level editor to create his own. The Google search built into his browser has made it so easy for him to start searching to find answers on doing that, among all his other interests (Webkinz, USB Funkeys, and whatever other commercial just happened to be on TV). Prior to a recent upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy on his machine, he used Ubuntu Christian Edition which uses Dan's Guardian parental controls. I have been very happy with that, but the weakness is that it takes a blacklist approach, meaning only sites that have been added by Dan's Guardian will be blocked. As good as they could possibly be, I can't count on them to catch everything. On his new operating system, I was looking for a good solution and came across Glubble, which is a cross-platform Firefox plugin that allows parents to white-list known good sites and allow kids to only see sites that have been approved.

I haven't set it up yet, but I just watched the video tour and it looks impressive! If you are looking for a solution to this as I am, go check it out. I will post back results after setting it up on his machine tonight.

Photoshop contest: What else could this cake have said?

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:43:02 GMT

I was looking at the links on the most recent version of the ColdFusion Weekly , and saw the posting about the IE team sending a cake to the Firefox team congratulating them on their 2.0 release.

view here

It made me think... what else could this cake have appropriately said? To graciously borrow an idea from fark.com , I decided it might make fun blog post. If you feel like contributing, post a link to your hosted image (I recommend ImageShack ) in the comments and I will add it to this post.

Here is a blank to get you started.

And here is my first entry:

Submitted entries follow:

From Aaron Lynch:

OK, one more from me...

from Richard Collett:

One more from "Pie is better":

We have landed

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT

Well, I have installed my blogging software. Time to play. :)