Firefox is a great browser, and part of that is it’s extensibility. As well as extensions and themes, Firefox also has an extensive set of hidden preferences that you can’t get to through the graphical Preferences dialogue.
Instead, you can access them via the built-in about:config URL (just visit that in Firefox).
Note: This is a straight up rip of the tutorial of the same name from the Beginner’s Linux series on my personal blog (on my personal site), but it’s content is eminently suitable for FOSSwire readers, so I’ve re-posted it here. Enjoy!
It’s time for another quick Beginner’s Linux!
I’d love to say it doesn’t happen on Linux, but very rarely it does. I can say it happens less often than on Windows, though. What am I talking about? Programs and processes misbehaving - locking up, stopping working and generally causing a problem.
The problem on Windows is that if this happens, there’s no sure fire way to just nuke the offending app from your running processes. Yes, you can use Task Manager and close the process, but if that doesn’t work, well… (bad memories here).
On Linux, if this situation does occur, you have a couple of wonderful programs called kill and killall that are invaluable for killing things when they go wrong (saves many a restart of the whole system).
This is going to be quite a quick tutorial, partly because the subject matter doesn’t take that much time to cover and partly because I’m starting to get quite a lot of work I have to do, which means I’m going have to be a bit brief. Anyway, onto the tutorial…
Included in GNOME 2.18 is a new gem: Rhythmbox version 0.9.8. This isn’t your average bugfix release, either.
Inside the new Rhythmbox, you won’t see anything new right away other than album picture support. The real new features are the plugins included: Magnatune and Jamendo.
Magnatude is a music store where you can listen to any song for free. All of the songs are Creative Commons licensed, and are required to have no DRM. After listening to all of the songs you want, you have the option to buy a physical CD, or buy the album as a download. The cool thing about this is the fact that you set your own price. If you think the album quality is extremely good, you can pay up to $18. If you are feeling cheap, you can pay as low as $5 for an album.
Jamendo is very similar to Magnatude. It allows you to listen to any song you want, for free, for as long as you wish. It also has a much larger music library than Mangatude at the moment, totaling 20959 songs at the time of writing. The main difference between Jamendo and Magnatude is that Jamendo’s songs are all free for download by BitTorrent. The only disadvantage of this method is that sometimes no one is around to seed your BitTorrent file. But, you are always free to add the songs in Jamendo to your Rhythmbox playlist to listen to whenever.
If you were to listen to every song on both Magnatude and Jamendo for 24 hours a day, never repeating a song, it would take over 80 days to hear them all.
