Peng’s links for Saturday, 9 August

• Asa Dotzler: shortcut to launch a specific firefox profile on mac. One thing that Windows users, and even Linux users, can do in Firefox is to create a shortcut to launch Firefox with a specific user profile. I do this myself since I’ve created several profiles during beta testing that I haven’t killed off yet. But Mac users? They don’t have shortcuts. They do have aliases, though, and Asa shows you how to create an alias on OSX that launches Firefox with a specific user profile. Of course he also lets Windows and Linux users know how to do this particular Firefox trick in case you haven’t found it yet.
• Launchpad News: Survey about Launchpad’s upstream bug workflow. I know many of you won’t give a flip about how Launchpad handles bugs, but many Ubuntu users do, and should know that you can link Launchpad bugs to other bugs, even if they’re not hosted on Launchpad. So that bug you find in Evolution (the bug is hosted on Bugzilla) can be linked to a bug on Launchpad so folks working on things upstream can quickly and easily see work done by the Ubuntu community. This is also good for users who also experience the bug so they can know that the bug is definitely being worked on.
• Matthew Helmke: An interview with Alan Pope. Matthew preents another Ubuntu Community Interview, this time with Alan Pope, the person behind the Ubuntu Screencasts project. Find out why he doesn’t like forums and his one bit of advise to Ubuntu users. I swear that one belongs to a t-shirt. I hope Alan will grant permission to make the tee (when I get around to it).

I’m going to call that a full lid from me. Have a great weekend, y’all. I’ll probably see you on Monday. I definitely have a few things I need to check out to see if they’re things I want to post about.