Scratch of the day - How to disable mouse gesture in Firefox on OS X

Starting from OS X snow leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7), Firefox have a mouse gesture of swiping 2 fingers left as go back a page in history & swiping to the right as go forward a page in history. Some times it is too sensitive as I scroll up & down in text reading would also trigger this behavior. Then I need reload the page again to get back where am I.

Search in Google & Duckduckgo doesn't yield much useful instructions. But out of a sudden a bulb lights up, this could be due to the mouse gestures that is being mischievous all these times!

It turns out that turning off the "Swipe between pages" in Mouse -> More Gestures does disable this mischievous behavior. :)

Arrivederci !!!

ssh - How to encrypt/tunnel internet traffic through ssh

When using an insecure internet connection (e.g. wireless), it is a good practice to tunnel internet traffic through ssh. Tunneling through ssh provide encryption of the traffic starting from local computer to the point ends where ssh server is. It is especially important to encrypt the traffic out of the local PC when using un-secure connection as other malicious intent users might be able to sniff packet off the current connection.

How does ssh tunneling works?

FreeBSD - How to install flash plugin or player to work with FireFox

This post is part of the "How to install FreeBSD as your Desktop" series and it shows how to install flash plugin onto FireFox internet browser in FreeBSD. Here it is :

Mozilla Firefox - common keyboard shortcut keys

Firefox have all the bells & whistles to make our internet life happy. Tabs, plugins, portability and keyboard shortcuts. Firefox keyboard shortcuts make browsing addictive, especially to system administrator, which our hands are on the keyboard most of the time. We could use mouse to browse it but wouldn't you think by keeping your hands on the keyboard would increase productivity? :)

Below are the list of keyboard shortcuts plus a few combination of mouse clicks which commonly used in Firefox. There are of cause other shortcuts available but this post only attempt to introduce you with the efficiency of using keyboard shortcuts (almost mouse-less) rather then trying to exhaust your brain memory in crunching the full list of keyboard shortcuts. You can print the below list of Firefox keyboard shortcut keys out and act as a Cheat Sheet. It can be useful in getting familiar initially using the keyboard shortcut keys. Here are the list :

ubuntu - firefox cannot resolve URL with telnet:// protocol

In Firefox, when clicking on a URL link with "telnet://", firefox browser would pop up an error message "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (telnet) isn't associated with any program.". It is due to the browser have not register a helper application to run the URL link with "telnet://". Below are some simple steps to prepare firefox in Ubuntu using xterm to open the URL :