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Friday, February 26, 2010

Is Seamonkey for linux better than Firefox?

I asked this question because of inability of buglessly playing videos using firefox. In order to solve this problem I have tried on my ubuntu box: opera, google chrome, konqueror, galeon, epiphany, and seamonkey web browser. And the last one is perfectly doing this task. So whenever I bump into the video firefox can't play I just grub seamonkey and it works great. It is easy to install just unpack and enjoy (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/). The only thing that keeps me from using it as my main browser that it does not have as rich set of addons as firefox does.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Ubuntu WICD problem at startup asks the password

I had this problem with ubuntu 9.10 install:
at startup wicd asked for the password in order to connect to the Internet, and then told me that it is not able to connect to d-bus. I have lived with that pretty long (2 or 3 months, but I do not reboot often).
Solution: remove all the references to wicd in the list of your startup applications(Menu->System->Preferences-> Startup Applications). Probably it tries to connect for the second time and reports the problem. Hope this will help somebody.