Mozilla Firefox

If you are logged into your IAS office workstation, nothing needs to be done. You will be able to access the PU Library resources automatically. 

If you are using your laptop, you should connect to the Eduroam network and then configure your browser...

If you want to conserve paper or don't want to carry around a lot of paper, it is possible to print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper.

There are two utilities for setting multiple pages on one piece of paper. They are called mpage and psnup

mp...

The web browser may be configured to open a pdf file within the web browser. Adobe Acrobat may open within the browser window. If this happens, then the Adobe menu items will appears beneath the browser menu items. (See picture below):



To print...

rm $HOME/.mozilla/*/*/lock rm ~/.mozilla/*/*/.parentlock or rm ~/.mozilla/*/*/lock rm ~/.mozilla/*/*/.parentlock

Reference these pages: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder#Where_is_my_profile_folder.3F...

• On your laptop or home machine, in Firefox, go to Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks. Then click on the Import/Export Button (Mac), Import and Backup Button (Windows/Linux) and select Export HTML. Save the file.
  
• Transfer that file to your office...

In order to install other languages in your browser: For Firefox:

1. Click on the Menu button (three horizontal lines on the right-side of the toolbar).
2. Click on Preferences->Content
3. Under Languages, click on Choose
4. In the "Select a language to add"...

Sometimes the Firefox/Mozilla process gets hung up and needs to be restarted.
To do this, at a terminal prompt, type:

pkill -u your_username firefox

or

pkill -u your_username mozilla

Substitute your_username with your username. You can verify that the...

It seems to be a bug with Mozilla Firefox that is causing screens to freeze.

To unfreeze your screen:

1. Make note of the name of the machine you are on.
2. Log into another machine
3. ssh into the machine that is frozen
4. type

pkill -9 -u your_username...

For Firefox:

rm $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*/lock rm $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock

or

rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/lock rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock

For Thunderbird:

rm $HOME/.thunderbird/*/lock rm $HOME/.thunderbird/*/.parentlock

or

rm ~/...

This error mean that the application does not know what your web browser is. This is preventing the application from opening up the html document.

To fix this error you can do either of the following:

1. When the question comes up, click on Yes.
   In the...