Planet Ubuntu NewsPosted by Peng on 30 April 2008
A post on the Mozilla WebDev blog this morning reports an update coming to Addons.Mozilla.org this Thursday. It looks like they’re fixing several of the bugs that made me detest the site so much when version 3.4 was rolled out. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 18 April 2008
Firefox 3 seems to be about changing usability, and not always for the better. First we had text zoom made secondary and zoom levels being rememberd according to the site, not the tab, and now a button that has always been present in the Download Manager is removed, and the bug asking for it to be returned has ben marked WONTFIX. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 10 April 2008
Many of us who have been testing Ubuntu Hardy have found there’s a bug that leaves the NumLock setting off as it boots up, despite our having it turned on in our BIOS. I’m glad to be able to report that the fix for the bug has been released and we no longer need to use workarounds. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 17 March 2008
I was finally able to do some hunting around Launchpad to find out why the numeric keypad on my keyboard “broke” once I got Ubuntu Hardy installed, and I was able to find a workaround for it. It’s also not a Hardy bug after all but a GNOME bug, and I’ve got both a workaround and bug links for all that need it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 14 March 2008
WINE, the ten yesr old open source program layer that lets Linux users run Windows programs (the name is an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is preparing for their 1.0 release in June and needs your help deciding which bugs absolutely need to be fixed before WINE 1.0 ships. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 10 March 2008
I’m helping test beta versions of Firefox 3 and I’m looking at helping test either alpha or beta versions of Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” and I’m amazed at how many times I see a new thread or a new bug report that duplicates one that already existed. Or even worse, how many comments keep getting added to a bug after the devs say “It’s a known issue. We’re working on it.”
For the love of God, people, if you want to help test software it’s not enough to want to report issues you find. Before you start posting the issue see if it’s already reported. Read the rest of this entry »
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