CAC with Firefox Tip – Selecting Certificates

A quick tip if using a smartcard reader (for things like CAC) with Firefox – some web sites may not work right if you cannot select the proper certificate.  Some sites want the signature certificate and others want the email certificate.  Internet Explorer offers you a choice – Firefox may not, unless you do THIS:

 Open [...]

Firefox Problem…

Had a weird issue with Firefox tonight – It would not open any bookmarks.  I could manually type in a URL, use the throbber, and use the Google search window, but clicking on a bookmark did not do anything – it just sat there with a single blank tab.
Google did not yield much, so I [...]

Japanese Input Support on Mandriva 2007 Linux…

I decided to try enabling Japanese input on my system this weekend. I did get it to work, and here is how:

I first Googled it. ^___________^
I then made sure the following language and font packages were installed:

fonts-ttf-japanese
fonts-ttf-japanese-extra
fonts-ttf-japanese-ipanoma
fonts-ttf-japanese-mplus_ipagothic
locales-ja

I then made sure to install the following input packages and their associated libraries:

canna
scim-canna
skim-scim-canna
anthy
uim
prime
kinput2

I [...]

Firefox Bolt-On – Tab Mix Plus

I tried this out, and while it has a *lot* of configuration settings (making it easy to cause your browser to misbehave, but nothing you cannot undo), it is also extremely cool. I was able to ditch several other addons (fewer is better, in my book), all associated with tab preferences and opening closed [...]