Tag: firefox
Embedded IE for Firefox
by Mostafa on Jan.09, 2006, under Software
While customizing firefox, I came across this extension: ietab
It doesn’t really kill that IE dependence but it’s not a bad extension to have around.
Firefox and MathML on Linux
by Mostafa on Sep.26, 2005, under How To ..., Linux, Software
While it’s a little more work compared to Windows, getting MathML to work on Firefox isn’t that hard. Now, it’s easier than ever thanks to the *.spec files created by Michael A. Peters:
http://mpeters.us/fc_extras/mathematica_ttf.spec
http://mpeters.us/fc_extras/mathtype_ttf.spec
(Copies of the files are also available here)
Before we can start building RPMs as a regular user, we need to install the fedora-rpmdevtools package from the Fedora Extras repo:
[darkknight@darkworld ~]$ sudo yum install fedora-rpmdevtools
Once that’s installed, we need to create the directory tree and RPM macros needed by rpmbuild:
[darkknight@darkworld ~]$ fedora-buildrpmtree
Now that we’re ready to build RPMs, we download and save the SPEC files under the ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/ tree:
[darkknight@darkworld SPECS]$ wget http://mpeters.us/fc_extras/mathematica_ttf.spec \ http://mpeters.us/fc_extras/mathtype_ttf.spec
Once we have the spec files, we need to get the sources. We can get them from the URLs specified in the respective spec files:
(We need the Mathematica 4.1 Fonts)
We need to save the downloaded fonts under ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
Next, we need to install the cabextract package to satisfy build requirements:
[darkknight@darkworld ~]$ sudo yum install cabextract
Now, to build the font RPMs, switch to the ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory and run:
[darkknight@darkworld SPECS]$ rpmbuild -bb mathtype_ttf.spec [...] [darkknight@darkworld SPECS]$ rpmbuild -bb mathematica_ttf.spec [...]
In both cases, the long messeges should end in:
+ exit 0
If not, then you need to hunt down the problem and solve it. Assuming they both ended with the exit status ‘0’, we can go ahead and install our freshly baked RPMs:
[darkknight@darkworld ~]$ sudo yum localinstall ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/math*
In addition to those packages, we also need the mathml-fonts package:
[darkknight@darkworld ~]$ sudo yum install mathml-fonts
Once we have all the required fonts, we have disble PANGO for firefox. In order to do this, we need to uncomment the following lines from /usr/bin/firefox :
MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO
One that’s done, we’re good to go! We can test the new MathML rendering capabilities at:
Importing Firefox passwords from another profile
by Mostafa on Aug.24, 2005, under How To ..., Software
It’s a lot simpler than I thought it would be – simply copy key3.db and signons.txt to the new profile and make sure they are writable.
GPLFlash 2
by Mostafa on Aug.19, 2005, under Linux, Software
Ok .. built and installed GPLFlash .. at least Firefox thinks it’s installed. Time to give it a try: well .. seems like StarTrek.com still won’t work .. guess it won’t settle for anything less than Flash 6 🙁