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  1. What did you try so far?

    Anyway you can try to click on the icon in the upper left corner (FF logo in your pic) and choose Special\Special window settings (or something similar I don't use English here). But if memory serves well that not only maximizes FF but all its pop-up windows too. So if you got a message or want to save a file etc those windows will be maximized too.

  2. There's a bug in 3.0.2 caused by bad converting of ASCII to Utf-8.

    If you have this bug than you can't access your old saved passwords and you can't save new ones.

    Hey everyone,

     

    Shortly after releasing Firefox 3.0.2 our QA and Support teams began

    seeing reports of problems certain users were having with the Firefox

    Password Manager. This was being caused by non-ASCII data (in domains,

    logins or passwords) saved as something other than UTF-8 failing to

    convert back to Unicode (see bug 454708) which was a regression from a

    fix to make the Password Manager work on IDN sites with characters

    over U+0100 (see bug 451155).

     

    The symptom is that users who have password data stores with non-ASCII

    data saved as something other than UTF-8 (more common for people who

    have saved passwords on IDN domains or non en-US domains) will not be

    able to access their saved passwords or create any new saved

    passwords. There is no permanent dataloss, the saved data is just

    inaccessible. While this doesn't affect all Firefox users, it is a

    significant regression and has triggered a fast-release Firefox 3.0.3

    which will contain a single fix for this issue. Once released, this

    will restore the functionality for all users.

     

    The fix has been landed and tested, and builds are coming out and

    being delivered to QA today. We hope to be releasing updates on the

    beta channel by early next week and issuing a release soon thereafter.

     

    cheers,

    mike

    from: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev...47739c7e3345f0#

    The solution is to either

    1, create a new profile and you can save new passwords, you can't use the old ones though

    2, edit signons3.txt in your profile and remove non-ASCII characters or convert them to UTF-8

    3, wait for FF 3.0.3

  3. patch is needed by rpm-build-4.4.2.3-1mde2008.1.i586

    elfutils is needed by rpm-build-4.4.2.3-1mde2008.1.i586

    rpm = 1:4.4.2.3-1mde2008.1 is needed by rpm-build-4.4.2.3-1mde2008.1.i586

    This is not the official Mandriva package. Official Mandriva packages use the mdv or mnb (for the core packages only) letters. looks like you used Google to find Mandriva packages, as you wrote, but didn't find the official ones. You can add them with a few clicks with MCC.
  4. If you can't wait until Mandriva 2009 comes out your best option is to find Mandriva packages of KDE 3.5.10 in an unofficial repo. So check (Google for them) Mandriva Italia Backports or MDE. Or search for other unofficial repos. I checked Seer Of Souls but I couldn't find any KDE packages. Maybe Hawkwind will make them later I don't know.

  5. The EULA has already been changed.

    The technology (one process per tab) is very promising. I wonder if this is the way Opera is working because it is very stable here apart from minor glitches.

    Since it's BSD licensed nothing stops anyone to use the technology if it's really that good, as ffi pointed out but only a few noticed on the web.

    As for me I rather use a browser which is released at the same time to all supported platforms and has some adblocking which is unlikely in a Google browser.

    But the question remains. Why did they do it?

  6. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.10. While not a very exciting release in terms of features, 3.5.10 brings a couple of nice bugfixes and translation updates to those who choose to stay with KDE 3.5. The fixes are thinly spread across KPDF with a number of crash fixes, KGPG and probably most interesting various fixes in kicker, KDE3's panel:

     

    * Improved visibility on transparent backgrounds

    * Themed arrow buttons in applets that were missing them

    * Layout and antialiasing fixes in various applets

     

    Official announcement, Changelog

  7. Most browser implementors are quick to adopt emerging Internet technologies, but Microsoft can't or won't make Internet Explorer a modern web browser. Its mediocrity has arguably hampered the evolution of the web and forced many site designers to depend on suboptimal proprietary solutions.

     

    IE's shortcomings won't hold back the Internet for much longer, however, because Mozilla plans to drag IE into the next generation of open web technologies without Microsoft's help. One of the first steps towards achieving this goal is a new experimental plugin that adapts Mozilla's implementation of the HTML5 Canvas element so that it can be used in Internet Explorer.

     

    Read more...

  8. The AMD Catalyst 8.8 Proprietary Linux Driver has been released. The new features of the new driver are:

    • CrossfireX support - This allows the graphics rendering workload to be split between multiple Radeon GPUs to deliver faster performance. For more, see the phoronix.com article with pics (warning 10 pages long).
    • Adaptive Anti-Aliasing - this improves the quality of images by anti aliasing the transparent pictures.
    • Linux kernel 2.6.26 support
    • ATI OverDriveâ„¢ official overclocking utility (see Phoronix.com article)
    • support of Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and 4.7
    • ATI MultiViewâ„¢

    You can read the Release Notes. The driver can be downloaded from the AMD website.

  9. SPE, along with a lot of other things, is in the Mandriva repos. Version 0.8.2.a_wx2.6.1.0-2mdv2008.1 is in contrib. I don't know if it's the latest or not but before installing an rpm file which is designed to run on an other distro (bad idea) try searching in the software installer.

  10. NVIDIA Linux Display Driver 173.14.12 was released yesterday. New features are:

    • Added support for GeForce 8600 GS.
    • Fixed a problem with missing rendering in OpenGL Workstation Overlays.
    • Fixed a problem with running some SDL applications and virtual terminal switching.
    • Fixed a potential crash in nvidia-settings when saving to the X configuration file.
    • Improved error recovery paths in the case of corruption of the commands sent to the GPU.

    Can be downloaded for Linux x86 , Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T), Solaris x64/x86 , FreeBSD x86

     

    Also ATI Catalyst 8.7 Proprietary Linux Display driver was released more than a week ago. It's mainly a bugfix release. Now it officially supports Ubuntu 8.04, SLED 10 SP2 and openSuSE 11 but still no support for Linux kernel 2.6.26. You can read the Release Notes for the other new features. Can be downloaded for Linux x86 and Linux x64.

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