Fedora 16 pre/post-installation setup
This is pretty much the same as my post for Fedora 15, but I modified some details to make sure everything is relevant for Fedora 16. I also converted the steps that requires downloading and installing into one executable command, whenever possible. I also added the -y option to the yum commands so we can [...]
Fix for “Aw, Snap!” when loading Twitter on Chrome on Fedora 15 with SELinux enforcing enabled
Good thing I found the fix in the Chromium issues list because I was already tempted to disable SELinux altogether. Daniel Walsh explains: We are trying to control what the chrome-sandbox is allowed to do, since it is setuid. The bug that you are seeing is caused by a file/directory being created in the homedir [...]
Fedora 15 pre/post-installation setup
I have mentioned in my previous post containing GNOME 3 screenshots (which I should say is a thing of beauty) that I’ve installed Fedora 15. During the pre-installation customization page, I clicked some of the familiar items that I would normally install eventually: Applications Design Suite (contains GIMP and OptiPNG, plus more) Office/Productivity (contains LibreOffice) [...]
Modify search engine shortcuts in Google Chrome
Google Chrome automatically detects and adds search engines to to the list of search engines that you can access from the Chrome address bar whenever you do searches on search engines like Google. It keeps a record of the site name, a keyword derived from the site url, and the search url. For example, if [...]
Chrome extensions I use
Most of the Firefox plugins I’m using hasn’t been ported to Chrome yet and some are still buggy (like the Firebug for Chrome). So far, this is what I have on my Chrome installation: Delicious Bookmarks Extension for saving the pages I’ve read and found useful, so I can keep my browser bookmarks clean. RSS [...]
