Windows Vs Linux – One more time

2017-04-07 5 min read Linux Uncategorized

Tux, as originally drawn by Larry Ewing
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One of the most written and commented articles has to be Linux vs Windows (of course there are competitors like vim vs emacs) but none has been covered so much as Linux vs Windows. So, what am I going to write here which is not covered earlier in so many other posts. Well a little different perspective 🙂

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Firefox troubleshooting

2013-03-11 1 min read Firefox

Here are few quick tips on getting to see what could be wrong with firefox.

Config entries – about:config

Support Information – about:support

Details on config entries – http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

Reset firefox profile – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems

Firefox profiles – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

 

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Google gravity for fun

2012-03-11 1 min read Uncategorized
Image representing Google Search as depicted i...
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1) Write ‘Google Gravity‘ in Google search box,press enter. 2) Click on the 1st result that appears i.e. Google Gravity. 3) Wait 2 seconds. Something cool will happen. 4) Play with it for a while. 5) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter. 6) Wait and see. Something even cooler will happen 🙂 Awesome !!!..
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Manually remove all the duplicate bookmarks in Firefox

2011-09-13 1 min read Firefox

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I was trying to install the duplicate Bookmark remover for the Firefox but for some reasons, was not able to install it. That apart, the point is that I was trying to get a program to do this for me rather than a plugin. So, after some search, finally I found here. This is a ruby script. The script requires ruby gems-json for doing this.

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Fast and bleeding edge Firefox.. version 7

2011-06-30 2 min read Firefox

Firefox 7.0 nightly builds have started and it seems to be quite fast. So, if you dont care about some sites not opening or once in a while your browser crashing, been using for 2 days on Windows , has not crashed so far and worked on all sites so far :), then you should install the Nightly build.

Head over to the nightly build site and install the appropriate build for your OS.

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10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side

2009-10-17 5 min read Uncategorized

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side Thankfully, the web doesn’t make us take sides. We can have the best of every world. With the launch of Bing, we had another search engine to crawl the web with. A few months and millions of searches down the line, Bing has also built up its legion of users (and fans). It’s Google vs Bing now. The former is still The search engine while the latter calls itself a decision engine.

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