I can Stumble again!

Somewhere between Firefox 3 RCs and the official release my StumbleUpon decided to break. I’m not sure what happened, and I even tried the latest beta, but whenever I tried to submit a new page I’d get an error dialog that auto-closed so quickly I still don’t know what it said. But thanks to the SU Help Forums I found something that did the job for me.

First off, uninstall the StumbleUpon extension. Don’t just disable it, completely remove it. Then go to Edit > Preferences > Privacy > Show Cookies and delete any cookie from stumbleupon.com. Don’t worry, you won’t have to remember how you logged in all those months ago, that part of StumbleUpon’s settings will be kept. Now close (not restart) Firefox.

Start Firefox again and install StumbleUpon (if you’re using Firefox 3 you can just use the first tab in the Add-ons Manager and install it from there). Of course if you’re an Ubuntu user StumbleUpon is in the Universe repository so it’s even easier to install.

Restart Firefox again, and you should be able to once again stumble like you should be able to, seeing pages others have found and submitting new pages for others to enjoy.

Peng’s links for Monday, 30 June

• Christer Edwards: View A Package Changelog Entry With Aptitude or Synaptic. After spending too many years in WindowsLand and testing beta software on both WinXP and Linux, I’ve gotten to like reading changelogs, those wonderful lists of what makes up the newness of a particular update. In Update Manager there’s a section that shows the changelog, but did you know you could get that information in Synaptic or Aptitude? I didn’t, but you can. Now if only the PPA’s would have such an easy to obtain changelogs.
• SciFi Wire: Horrible Gets July Air Date. Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and Firefly, has a musical series coming to the Wild Wild World of Web this month. But you’ll have to act fast if you want to see them for free, as they’re only going to be on the web for one week before getting pulled in favor of getting it available for a cost. I can’t wait to see Mal as yet another hero.
• Leo Iannacone: Wallpaper: The death of Knowledge. A great wallpaper for proponents of open source projects.
• Sense Hofstede: Goodbye Evolution. Almost two weeks ago Sense helped inspire me to ditch Thunderbird and move to Evolution, where I can happily sync the calendar I carry around on my PDA with the one on my computer. I’ve had some issues with RSS feeds from the LA Times crashing Evolution (I need to report that to someone) and yesterday the Time’s Blue Notes blog crashed Evolution while downloading my Gmail and I needed to re-import all of my Gmail just to download two emails that Evolution didn’t have. (If I used IMAP it probably would have been easier, but I still need to see how my using email clients will change with IMAP before it can come up too far on my todo list.) Sense, on the other hand, has had emails completely disappear on him as he tried to read them and is looking for a new email client. His post today has some very good questions that he needs answered in his search for a replacement for Thunderbird/Evolution.