A few weeks ago I had problems with my connection to the internet. My connection had been rock solid for a year and a half, but my first inclination was to blame my provider. I quickly discovered it was to do with Firefox. I found a solution, which was to delete some file, but unfortunately [...]

This problem had me stumped, as I didn’t know how to call a text editor to view and edit source files, eg to trouble shoot html files. Firefox has View/Page Source in its menus, but you can’t edit the file. After downloading some extensions, which didn’t work because I didn’t know the path to a [...]

Bug in Firefox on Ubuntu [Bug #14391: Firefox cannot save links with left-clicking on links.] I thought this was a flaw in Ubuntu, or something to do with permissions, but it’s a bug in Firefox on Ubuntu. Firefox cannot save links with left-clicking on links UPDATE: I worked around this bug by dragging and dropping [...]

Still feeling my way around, I clicked on a Firefox system file (firefoxrc), after which I could not launch Firefox. Full error message as follows: Could not launch application failed to execute child process “/etc/firefox/firefoxrc” (permission denied) I found this on the Ubuntu forum to rectify permission problem: chmod o+x /etc or if that fails [...]