BSD & Gaming

PCBSD 8.1 is now available for your desktop or laptop!! What are you waiting for? Go get yourself a copy now!

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5

Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:

• FreeBSD 8.1-Release
• KDE 4.4.5
• Numerous fixes to the installation backend
• Support for creating dedicated disk GPT partitioning
• Improved ZFS support
• Bugfixes to desktop tools / utilities

Announcement – [LINK]

Release notes – [LINK]

Download via FTP mirrors – [LINK]

I’m putting together a little list of the FireFox add-ons I have found to be useful.

Please take a look at the page Recommended add-ons for FireFox.

The newest Firefox 3.6 makes a big change in how new tabs are loaded. The old way opens a new tab to the far right. The new way opens a tab immediately to the right, this bugs the hell out of me.

If you like or want to know more about the way version 3.6 handles tabbed browsing and the changes to come, then take a look at this page – [LINK]

For those dinosaurs like myself who prefer the old way it’s a simple enough fix.

Go to about:config and filter for browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent, then change the value to “FALSE”.

All done, PHEW! now I can go back to surfing the way I like it.

I liked Mozilla before they split off Firefox and then renamed the suite from Mozilla to “Seamonkey” blegh! What a name. I refuse to use it, sorry in my opinion that name is just lame. I can’t believe they couldn’t come up with something better. Ah well… I rant…. blah blah blah.

Anyway… I’ve used tabbed browsing for ages and I prefer to have the close button to the far right in the tab bar. The recent changes of a new page button, a list all button, and having a close button for each and every tab is just annoying. I don’t need all that crap. So every time I setup firefox on a new computer here are two things I do right away.

First – edit the userChrome.css file for your profile by adding these lines after the
@namespace line:

.tabs-container > stack {display:none!important;}
.tabs-newtab-button {display: none !important;}

Second – go to about:config and filter for browser.tabs.closeButtons and change the value to “3“.

TADAH! Once again the tab bar is cleaned of all the junk I don’t want and my close button is on the right where I prefer it. This works great in FreeBSD so I assume it should work fine for windowsz and linux based os’s.