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Install & configure a personal server (custom) Firefox Sync

Thursday, October 6, 2011 6 comments

For those who do not know, Firefox Sync is a service from Mozilla, which allows us to synchronize between many browsers, our favorites, tabs open, browsing history, etc
This allows you to be able to have the bookmarks/passwords you put in the work, in the machine of your house and vice versa, among other things.

The idea is fantastic, and no one can deny that it is very practical .. but as with all the other similar services, one paints the paranoia of ‘am I giving all my data to this people’.. or simply, annoys us, as is the present situation, which the server Mozilla this fallen ago 2 days..

I have there where did the idea of creating your own server for Firefox Sync, and that's what this mini – tutorial.

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Adding the Tiny Tiny RSS to Firefox.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 No comments

With all of this that Bloglines dies, we leave to the search of a reader online rss. There appeared the TTRSS, that truth, is a mass. (http://tt-rss.org/redmine/)
The idea of this mini-howto is to ‘add’ the ttrss to Firefox, so we can use it as an integrated service to underwrite RSS's.
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Shiretoko / IceWeasel vs Facebook

Saturday, 19 September 2009 No comments

If you're a user of Debian / Ubuntu, you must have noticed that your Firefox in those distros is not called so, it has different names as to be ‘Shiretoko’ (in Ubuntu) or IceWeasel (in Debian). This is a topic of licences/trademarks (see http://2tu.us/te8).
At a glance this should not bother/cause problems to anyone, except.. for some sites that use the user-agent (http://2tu.us/te9) of the browser to display certain content.
One of those sites is nothing less than Facebook, which, if you enter using Shiretoko/Iceweasel, you change the chat windows by a horrible one that opens in the background, huge size, etc.. when in truth, the browser is 100% compatible with FF, and everything works all the same.

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Firefox extensions that everyone should have!

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 No comments

Ok, the firefox peeled, you have less wave bangs of japanese so there is that load of extensions (addons, is the same thing). Here goes a list of which, to me, are indispensable, or the best...

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