Archive for Firefox
Gend’butu
Posted in Linux with tags Firefox, French police, Gendarmerie, Gendarmerie nationale, GendBuntu, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows XP, Ministère de l'Interieur, Ministry of Interior, Mozilla Firefox, proprietary software, ubuntu, Ubuntu 24.04, Windows on November 2, 2025 by xi'an
snap snap snap…
Posted in Linux with tags background, Firefox, Jackson Hole, Linux, package, SNAP, Tetons, Ubuntu 22.04, update on November 16, 2023 by xi'an
Every few weeks, I get a warning from Firefox (my default browser) that an update is not implemented. This is due to Ubuntu 22.0 adopting the snap technology for handling its packages and their updates. Supposedly helping with handling versions and dependences. This update can be done with the line command
sudo snap refresh firefoxwhich remains long enough in the history file for me to cut&paste it the next time the warning appears, but it is mildly annoying when all other updates are automatically handled by Discover.
technical steps
Posted in Books, Linux, Running, Travel with tags Beamer, Firefox, Garmin, KAUST, Kubuntu 22.04, laptop, LaTeX, road race, training, Ubuntu 22.04, upgrade, xcolor on June 11, 2023 by xi'an
After procrastinating as much as feasible, I switched at last to (K)Ubuntu 22.04, Jammy Jellyfish, after security updates stopped for the 20.04 version. While this proceeded mostly without hiccups, the upgrade stalled when upgrading Firefox, which I had foolishly left open. When I turned it off and completed the upgrade, this erased all of my Firefox personal profile… Rather than copying my latest backup, I recovered most of the Firefox profile by syncing from another computer, although that. This was (recklessly) the very day before I flew to KAUST and, upon arriving there, I found out the associated version of beamer (3.65) had an issue, with colours (xcolor). Problem that I brute forced by downloading all files of the latest version (3.70), since a direct upgrade of beamer did not seem feasible… I have now recovered most of my (updated) passwords and my favourite commands are again running. (As a coincidence, I also recently bought a Garmin watch for training, which definitely helps for faster sessions—with possibly side effects on my cycling trips as I am trying to raise my average speed—although I find the battery life ridiculously small.)
platform fatigue
Posted in Kids, Linux, University life with tags calendar, COVID-19, Firefox, la vie au bureau, Microsoft, platform, Skype, Teams, Thunderbird, Zoom on March 1, 2021 by xi'an
With the myriad of platforms used to counteract the absence of most direct interactions at work, I start to suffer from platform fatigue, constantly switching to a different interface and wasting a lot of time on retrieving links from old emails and reentering passwords… Even a single platform like Teams requires permanent juggling between Dauphine and Warwick (obviously linked with Microsoft constraints), plus repeated updates that clash more often than enough with Firefox. Not to mention collaborative systems like Overleaf, Wikimath, Git, and others. Same thing for regular Zoom meetings which fail to reopen from one week to the next. And calendars that cannot keep track of everything or even anything! The only interface that keeps working (for me) across accounts is my Thunderbird email interface, except for the sharp increase in the email volume (and the fact that many now bypass emails for chats on Teams, Slack, and another myriad of platforms).
GReader dross
Posted in Statistics with tags adds, Firefox, GReader, Wordpress on October 19, 2011 by xi'an
Julyan Arbel signaled to me that my posts were producing the above kind of dross when read in GReader. Sorry about this, it does not appear on my Firefox reader (just like the adds were not appearing for me…) By the way, what is GReader?! (Please do not bother to enlighten me!)
