Howto : Make Flash Player 9 work in full screen mode

To get Flash Player 9 to work in full screen mod mode you need Flash, build 9.0.64.0 , a prerelease of the next version of Flash

On most distros the Stable version of Flash: 9.0.48.0 is available

To get the prerelease of Flash you need to go to adobe.labs.com
The release notes of this prerelease version can be read here
And as you can read there in the fixed Issues :

In full-screen mode on Linux, playing odd-width movies (with screen widths not divisible by 16) may cause a crash.

Is fixed
It basically means ‘full screen Flash works now in Linux’ yaaay!!

Rpm based distros are lucky, they can upgrade with download Plugin for Linux x86 (RPM, 2.88 MB)
Other distros need to uninstall their original plugin and Download Plugin for Linux x86 (TAR.GZ, 2.88 MB)

Extract the TAR.GZ (usually a rightclick and a extract here will do) , then continue on your terminal:

cd /path/to/install_flash_player_9_linux/

If you use firefox or mozilla run the installer:

./flashplayer-installer

It will ask some questions and install flash locally
You can also run it as root (sudo) if you wish, but usually this is not needed.
You can also copy the plugin into the pluginfolder of your preferred browser:
as root (sudo)

cp libflashplayer.so /path/to/your/preferred/browser/plugins/

If all this sounds alien/confusing to you, just be patient for your next update of flash in your distro, which will probably solve the full screen issue.

Tuxicity.

Resources: labs.adobe.com , labs.abobe.com releasenotes

Fix Small fonts on certain websites for Firefox, Seamonkey Internet Suite and Netscape Navigator 9

Default font setting for Firefox is 72 dpi. That is not good enough for me , my eyesight is not as good as 20 years ago and on some websites letters are tinier then ever for my poor old eyes.

In the good old days there was a way to resolve this in the settings of the Mozilla browser (Now Seamonkey) and set it to 96 dpi.

Nowadays this has to be done with a keystroke in the address bar of Firefox.

Key in :

about:config

in the filter of the about:config page key in:

dpi

double click the layout.css.dpi, the pop-up that appears can be set it to 96, and if thats still too small, to 120 or whatever your preference is, but rendering of sites might not be proper anymore.

In this way this small font size issue is fixed, without getting strangely rendered websites, due to manually setting the minimum fontsize, from “none” to for example “12″, what can cause problems with, for example, filling in forms.

Works the same way on the Seamonkey Internet Suite and Netscape Navigator 9.

Time to get my eyes checked,

Tuxicity

Howto install Netscape Navigator 9 beta 1 on the average Linuxbox

After reading “Netscape releases Netscape Navigator 9 beta 1″ I decided to install and try NN 9 for a bit.

Here is how NN 9 can be installed on the the average Linux distro.

• First download the NN 9 package from Netscape.

• Extract the downloaded package (Right click netscape-navigator-9.0b1.tar.gz and select extract here).

Now open your console and become root (su or sudo -i) and go to ‘not into!’ the folder where the extracted folder resides.

mv navigator/ /usr/local/
ln -s /usr/local/navigator/navigator /usr/local/bin/navigator

The browser is now set up, on to setting up the plugins for NN 9, compatable with Firefox which usually reside in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins :

ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /usr/local/navigator/plugins/

• Leave root mode with the exit command, done setting up NN 9

Now there is one more thing to do and that is setting NN 9 up in Gnome with alacarte and/or in KDE with the menu editor (kmenuedit)

Properties are for setting it up :

Description = whatever you want
Executable= navigator
Icon for NN 9 is located here: /usr/local/navigator/icons/mozicon50.xpm

To remove NN 9, as root:

rm -rf /usr/local/navigator ; rm /usr/local/bin/navigator

As non-root user remove it from alacarte and/or kmenuedit

Have fun,
Tuxicity.

• Netscape browser page.
• Linux.com, hinting me to try NN 9 beta 1.