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Chris Coulson describes the regression in Thunderbird 3.0.4 and a workaround to fix it.

Needed to add a symbolic link for the broken plymouth package that prevented Lucid Lynx from starting up.

A change in Gnome’s gnome-power-management package has hidden the “Do nothing” option making it difficult to run an external monitor on a laptop with the lid closed. Here’s a workaround.

Reset your Firefox settings to their default state without deleting all of your saved data.

I finally figure out how to force all of my Firefox 3.0.x plugins to work with Firefox 3.5. All were enabled, but one was broken.

Here’s a short example showing how to enable Firefox 3.0 plugins to work with Firefox 3.5.

An email from Martin Pitt that went out across the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list warns about a possible failure with the new gdm 2.26 that just landed for those taking part in testing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. “… if you upgraded to gdm 2.26 since last Friday, updating your system under GNOME will kill the upgrade [...]

Pidgin releases 2.5.7. Fixes the issues users were experiencing with Yahoo.

Yahoo decided to update their Messenger server software causing havoc for non-Messenger clients like Pidgin. Here’s a temporary solution.

Finally figured out why gufw’s “Autostart with session” option was grayed out.