How to Enable Flash in Firefox 1.5

April 30th, 2007 I am using a Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHZ x 2), one of the best processor (review) in market today, with 2GHZ of DDR 2 667 RAM (read about my dream computer setup), and yet Firefox manages to hog 97% of the CPU in no time at all. I admit that I open too many windows but its is still extreme, don't you think? So I set upon to find a solution to the CPU hogging problem and you will be surprised to know that it is really very simple.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

May 14th, 2006 Strangely you cannot set browser window status bar using javascript (by setting window.status) in Firefox. There are two simple ways you can enable it.

April 16th, 2006 The most annoying thing about web these days is the prevalence of Macromedia Flash based eye candies and advertisement. Not only they are an irritating visual distraction (in most cases), they also consume way too much CPU.

November 15th, 2004 I have enumerated some benefits and things to watch out for in the latest Firefox release.

June 10th, 2008 Frankly I am tired of the Flash based image uploader. It doesn't work most of the time, when it works it is pretty unstable, frequently fails on Opera, doesn't work (for me) on Firefox in Linux even with latest Flash, doesn't work with .htaccess fix and more.

July 17th, 2006 Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.

September 7th, 2005 A nifty idea where you can use a Suggest box (AJAX enabled) to enable users to search any data on your site, including your pages etc. The downside is that it is Internet Explorer only solution.

September 2nd, 2007 In Linux, unlike Windows, multiple users can simultaneously connect to the same machine and get a full GUI using windows managers like VNC. However when one of the account has Firefox opened, others are prevented from bringing up firefox which can be very much irritating.

April 4th, 2005 Previously I had posted on one of the best use of Flash. Now I have seen the second best use of Flash - as a cookie creator, cookies (persistent user information stored on client machines and accessible from the web server and are often used to track client's online activity) which are hard to delete and are not amenable to normal methods of cookie deletion.

January 3rd, 2006 Today we will discuss three productivity tips which has helped me most in Firefox last year. Location bar for "I'm Lucky" Google Search In the location bar (where you type in the URL) if you type in a word or phrase and hit [Enter] - the browser does a "I'm Lucky" Google search which effectively does the search and takes you to the first matching page.

November 14th, 2005 A vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia Flash Player 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to missing validation of the frame type identifier that is read from a SWF file.

September 28th, 2009 CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets).

May 14th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 ships with Firefox 1.5.x version. Firefox 2.0.x is currently in development repository of Fedora Core 6.

June 25th, 2006 There are two Firefox extensions depending on your need. If you need to switch between different proxies quickly then you can use the SwitchProxy extension for Firefox.