Se non ce la fate piu’ ad aspettare i pacchetti ufficiali aggiornati per Firefox 3 RC1, potete aggiornare il vostro browser preferito con il seguente repository:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu hardy main

Aggiungete tale riga al vostro /etc/apt/sources.list e lanciate i seguenti comandi:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

Ovviamente se avete gia’ Firefox3 installato altrimenti:

sudo aptitude install firefox-3.0

Grazie a OnlyUbuntu

After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I noticed that I'm using Firefox/Iceweasel 2.0 now.

Which is nice and all, but it doesn't really fit my way of browsing and TAB-handling. I always have lots of TABs open simultaneously. And by lots I mean 100-600. I'm not kidding. Firefox 2.0 changed TAB sizes and behaviour which makes it completely unusable for me.

A quickfix to make it at least bearable:

1. Type about:config in the URL bar.
2. Search for browser.tabs.tabMinWidth default integer 100
3. Change 100 to 8.
4. Restart the browser.

A lot better now...

I’ve built Ubuntu Dapper Epiphany 1.9 and Firefox 1.4.99 packages for Ubuntu Breezy. I’ve also enabled the Epiphany Adblock extension which seems to work fine. You can’t specify your own advert signatures with a GUI yet (afaikt) but the built-in database seems to cover most bases.

I’ve only built for i386 as that’s all I need it for right now. Tbh, it’s really not that difficult to build you own, but here they are anyway:
UPDATE: I’ve setup an apt repository for all this nonsense.

deb http://johnleach.co.uk/downloads/ubuntu breezy backports

I don’t really have plans to keep this up to date, but I might expand it to a few other packages I want to play with, so feel free to use.