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Journal by Degrees on Sunday June 22, 2008 @02:55PM

This time, my grub menu did not get wiped out - that was nice. Adding the nvidia driver was effortless, and getting compiz to work was a breeze. Sound hardware was recognized properly without any interaction on my part. :-)

ktorrent lost it's settings, as the prefs file is now located under .kde4

There isn't built-in support for the extra buttons on my mouse, and I use the side buttons for the 'forward' and 'back' buttons a LOT.

The biggest annoyance is that it 'upgraded' me to Firefox 3, which broke three plugins I like, and declared the theme I have unusable. The selection of themes that are compatible are not appealing to me.

But all in all, it's probably the easiest upgrade I've gone through.

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by stoolpigeon ( 454276 ) * writes:

For some reason a couple plugins that showed up as broken when I upgraded, and didn't get updated, were available for FF3.0 when I went to the add-on site. It might be worth looking.
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  by Degrees ( 220395 ) writes:
  
  The one I want the most, Google Browser Sync, I knew wasn't (isn't) going to be upgraded. I did go to addons.mozilla.org and search for Clean And Close - still says only good older versions of Firefox. Of course, I could turn on developer mode, and enable legacy support. Turns out Mozilla does host Clear and Close 1.1 (Experimental) by Steve Love instead of Chris Bloom. Supposed to give up your email address to get it, though. Well that's annoying.
  The last one I want is Firesomething. Yes, I know it's sill
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    by stoolpigeon ( 454276 ) * writes:
    
    The Google Sync plugin being discontinued actually made the front page ( http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/14/1140251 [slashdot.org]) So yeah - that one is toast. I've never heard of Firesomething. So it must not be important. :)
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      by Degrees ( 220395 ) writes:
      
      Firesomething is the most important plugin. For example, I'm not posting this comment with Mozilla Firefox - I'm posting it with Mozilla Lightningworm. I also have views into the world wide web via Mozilla Sunmonkey, Mozilla Seabeaver, and Mozilla Hypnobee. It's a crucial plugin, I tell you!
      ;-)
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        by stoolpigeon ( 454276 ) * writes:
        
        Best laugh I've had all day. Right here.

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