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Fix Facebook Chat in Firefox 3.5 (Shiretoko) in Ubuntu
Since I upgraded Firefox to 3.5 (Codename : Shiretoko), I noticed that Facebook chat does not work anymore, moreover, in order to get notifications for new events, I had to refresh the page manually.
After a search at Google, I found the problem, and the way to fix it: Looks like Ubuntu had decided to rename the user-agent into “Shiretoko” which is the codename of firefox 3.5, instead of “firefox”.
Because of the new user-agent name, Facebook does not recognize the browser as firefox, and thus disables some features that are browser dependent.
In order to fix the problem:
1. In the URI bar (that’s the place where you type the URLs of websites you want to visit), type “about:config” (without the double quotes).
2. Click the funny button “I’ll be carefull, I promise”.
3. Now look for “general.useragent.extra.firefox”, right click it, and choose “Modify”.
4. Instead of “Shiretoko”, type “Firefox”. (e.g. if you had “Shiretoko/3.5.4pre” it should become “Firefox/3.5.4pre”.
That’s it, now the world should be a better place 
via vimtips.
Fetch Links From Twitter Into Your RSS Reader
Twitter streams are usually full of links, most of them are shortened by a URL shortener, and filtering them might be time consuming.
A cool service, Readtwit, solves this problem intelligently: Using Readtwit, you can easily create a RSS feed of all links appearing in your twitter stream. The service will fetch the links, and send the full story to your RSS reader. It allows you to filter the tweets (block people and block hashtags).
Neat and time-saving. Try it and have fun
Google Reader Useful “Send To” Services
Recently, Google have added a “send to” feature to Google Reader, which allows one to share an item in social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc…).
The greatest thing in this feature is, that Google allows you to add custom sites to the “Send To” destinations. A few nice sites are listed below:
1. Download item as PDF (via)
Name: Save as PDF
URL: http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=${url}
Icon URL: http://www.adobe.com/lib/com.adobe/template/icon/pdf.gif
Delicious – Make “Do Not Share” Selected by Default
If you use the official Delicious plugin for firefox, then you may have noticed that when you bookmark a page, the “do not share” checkbox is not selected by default – even if you set your account as private.
This might be annoying if you don’t want to share every page you bookmark with the world, but you want to share only specific pages instead – you might want to do this, for example, for sharing only high-quality pages instead of every “maybe interesting” page.
Should You Trust Facebook?
I just received an email from Facebook saying:
Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
To reset your email notification settings, go to:
[A link to facebook]Thanks,
The Facebook Team
About Me
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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