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Ubuntu 9.10 Firefox 3.5 fonts
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | Author:

After upgrading to 9.10, the fonts in Firefox were too big and blurry. I fixed it as follows:

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
sudo mv 10-hinting-slight.conf 10-hinting-slight.conf.original
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-hinting-medium.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/.
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

Restart Firefox.

Thanks to Carlo Hamalainen for providing the fix.

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BBC iPlayer: live streaming audio on Firefox on Ubuntu
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | Author:

Archive radio programmes were working but live radio wasn’t on Firefox 3.08 on Ubuntu 8.10. I fixed it as follows:

Close Firefox.
Remove the following packages:

  • totem-gstreamer
  • totem-mozilla

Install the following packages

  • mozilla-mplayer
  • totem-xine

Restart Firefox.

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Realplayer on Ubuntu 8.10
Monday, April 13th, 2009 | Author:

To use realplayer for, for example, the BBC iPlayer for radio:

  • Download the deb package
  • Install the deb package
    > sudo dpkg -i realplayer_11.0.0.4028-20080226_i386.deb
    (Use ‘sudo dpkg -i realplayer’ to remove it)
  • Create a link:
    > sudo ln -s /opt/real/Realplayer/realplayer /usr/bin/realplay
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