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 [...]
Tag Archives: FireFox
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 [...]
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://“. [...]
