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HOW TO INSTALL MOZILLA FIREFOX 3.0 UNDER UBUNTU LINUX?

These instructions are tested under Ubuntu 7.10, but probabely they work on other versions of Ubuntu or other Linux distros, too.

Before starting, perhaps you’ll want to backup your ~/.mozilla folder, first. Just copy (drag-n-drop) it to any other folder.

So, open the Terminal or something similar, and type instructions given bellow one by one. After the first “sudo”, you’ll need the root password, so if you are not root or don’t know the root password, installation will not continue. Don’t type initial numbers

1. sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
2. Download Mozilla Firefox 3.0 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and change the working directory to that where you saved the file (for example, if you saved to Desktop, then type: cd Desktop).
3. sudo tar -C /opt -jxvf firefox-3.0.tar.bz2
4. cd /opt/firefox/plugins/
5. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/*
6. sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu –rename /usr/bin/firefox
7. sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
8. sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu –rename /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
9. sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

That’s all.

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HOW TO SHOW BACK (UNHIDE) SHORTCUT ARROWS IN WINDOWS XP?

I installed a windows optimizer, as my laptop went too slow. It did wonderful job, but after rebooting, I saw that there are no arrows on the shortcuts on my desktop. As my desktop is 90% full with various icons, this was very bad for me. To be honest, for shortcuts, it showed the location of the file when I pointed over the icons, but on the first sight, it was impossible to know whether the icon refers to a file who is on the desktop or it’s a shortcut.

I tried some standard things, but with no success. This is Windows, so when something goes bad, it’s really bad

Whell, after that I installed some tools downloaded from Microsoft. No success again.
I surfed the web for solution and found that there are zillions of web sites teaching how to get rid of the shortcut arrows, but there is no single web-site with instructions for showing back (unhiding) shortcut arrows in Windows XP. I am curious why people don’t want the arrows?

OK. I understood that I have to fix the problem by myself. So, here are the very simple instructions which helped me:

1. Run regedit (Start > Run… > (type) regedit > OK)

2. If you are not sure what you are doing, it’s a good idea to backup the registry file before proceeding. But relax. These steps are too easy and safe

3. Click on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (on left window)

4. Go down, find and click to lnkfile (the first letter is L).

5. On the right window, right-click your mouse and click on New, then String Value.

6. Type the name for the new string value: IsShortcut and press Enter.

7. Exit regedit.

8. Reboot.

And that’s all

This is done only in Windows XP. It works perfectly and it’s perfectly safe.

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