I try getting backup on the Firefox wagon from time to time, but most of the time I revert to Brave because of the small things that bug me.
This article is mostly to remind myself what to change in case I frack up my profile.
Make Firefox read userChrome.css Type about:config in the address bar (you will be presented with a warning), accept and move on.
Search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and double click to set it to true....
If you have installed Firefox 3.6, you will discover that Java is no longer working
For i386 (32 bit Ubuntu):
$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 50 For amd64 (64 bit Ubuntu):
$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so 50 ...
With the release of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) yesterday (31/10/08) I am once again running a stable relase – Which meant I had to find something else to screw up :)
I decided to testdrive the latest Firefox 3.1 milestone; it does make it a lot easier that Fabien Tassin has been kind enough to set up a repository as well as keeping Firefox 3.1 and other packages up to date....