I think it would be nice if the firefox tab bar could be integrated in the unity menubar.

I use my laptop WIFI at many hotels and on many airlines/buses/trains yearly.

Upon first use many of these APs subvert the resolution of the URL (without saving it) that you want to go to, and redirect you to their authentication site which makes you agree to a EULA before access is granted.

Problem is, if i start firefox with 20 tabs open, all 20 get subverted and i lose their addresses.

I have lost hours of research this way.

It should be easy to use thunderbird/firefox autoconfig system (http://mit.edu/~firefox/www/maintainers/autoconfig.html). The problem now is that (thunderbird example) "general.config.filename" preference (which you can set in "/etc/thunderbird/pref/thunderbird.js") is filename path relative to the root of the thunderbird binary directory (for example "thunderbird.cfg"). And this directory (/usr/lib/thunderbird-A.B.C) is changed after every thunderbird upgrade in ubuntu. So, after upgdrade I have to copy/recreate my thunderbird.cfg in new directory.
My workaround is to create and edit /etc/thunderbird/thunderbird.cfg and create symlink to it in /usr/lib/thunderbird-A.B.C directory. To automate it after upgrades I created /etc/apt/99thunderbird containing:
DPkg::Post-Invoke "for i in `ls -d /usr/lib/thunderbird-* | grep -v thunderbird-addons`; do [ ! -e $i/thunderbird.cfg ] && ln -s /etc/thunderbird/thunderbird.cfg $i/thunderbird.cfg; done";
Workaround works well, but using DPkg::Post-Invoke is realy nasty way.
I think automatic customization of thunderbird/firefox should be convenient in large environments.

When you download a file using a web browser, you are either asked to select a directory to save the file or the file is saved to the Downloads directory.

But why not to try making the selecting of the directory a bit easier?

I just noticed that in 10min I probably closed and reopened firefox .. 5 times.
And although my machine doesn't have a lot of ram, I think I would get things done faster if firefox wouldn't shut down completely every time I closed that last tab.

O pessoal responsável pelo desenvolvimento do Ubuntu poderiam levar em consideração a possibilidade de criar um ambiente dentro
do próprio Ubuntu, um ambiente virtual em que, a qualquer instante poderia ser usado para acessar homebanking, fazer compras on-
line. Ou seja, como se fosse uma máquina virtual provisória e que em cada acesso seria gerado uma código para permissão do acesso.
Ou seja, enquanto estivesse no homebanking, estaria livre da interceptação de hackers. Ou seja, uma proteção temporária garantida
pelo próprio sistema operacional. Ou mais longe, interessante seria se todo acesso à internet se desse dentro de um ambiente virtual,
protegendo as informações dos usuários de qualquer acesso estranho enquanto estivesse navegando. Como se esse ambiente virtual
fosse um computador virtual que recebesse todo acesso externo, assim, mesmo que hackers acessassem a conexão, não poderiam acessar
diretamente as informações do usuário da internet. E sempre que conectasse à internet, seria dentro de um novo ambiente virtual, assim,
vírus, cookies ou outras informações armazenadas durante esse acesso não estaria disponível no acesso seguinte.


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The staff responsible for developing the Ubuntu might consider the possibility of creating an environment within
Ubuntu's own, a virtual environment where, at any time could be used to access home banking, shopping online
line. That is, like a virtual machine on each provisional and that an access code would be generated to allow access.
That is, while going through the home banking, would be free from interception by hackers. That is, a temporary protection guaranteed

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Binary package hint: firefox

Use https://encrypted.google.com/ in searches

Always.. i put bug wishlist https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/683987

Often, when children make a search using google, the list of result include also pornografic websites (related with the word used for the search) and other dubious web sites. Adding my add-on (available on Mozilla web site in add-on's section and named Google NO PORN) on the search bar of Firefox you can simply digit in that box the term of your search and click on the search button: magically the list of results appeare free of porno website and related.
Useful for computers shared with teenagers or computer used for professional use only.

When using Ubuntu in countries like Canada the search engine box doesn't correspond with the country selected when installing. Also, the settings cannot be changed by clicking on "manage search engines, get more search engines." Note that this feature is integrated into other popular operating systems.

There's a wealth of documentation on packages that are installed, in /usr/share/doc. This documentation isn't prominent.