Avoid firefox message: Install missing plugins

My laptop is an ibook G4 and maybe because of madness or because I’m so geek, I use linux on my ibook. One of the most annoying problems is that there is no good support for flash in linux PPC. This causes that all webpages viewed with firefox that requires the flash player plugins makes firefox requesting to install it.

Install Missing Plugins

Install Missing Plugins

After being annoyed for months I search for this configuration in about:config page and I finally found it. The only action to avoid this message is to set plugin.default_plugin_disabled to false and that’s all!. Now I can surf the web without any Install missing plugins message.

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June 28th, 2007 | tags: , , | No Comments

Developing Javascript involved web applications with Firebug

If you’ve been assigned to a new web application project lately, you’ll probably have had to deal with this [not] new AJAX technology. To be honest, AJAX is good, and websites like Google Mail and Flickr are good examples of that. But remember something: it’s always bad to abuse of something. It’s always bad to abuse AJAX. Don’t use it if it doesn’t really make sense to do it, and if your boss insists on it, ask him if he would use truck wheels on his BMW.

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June 23rd, 2007 | tags: , , , | No Comments