As an interesting folly, everyone knows that Firefox is developed and used upon multiple platforms. The appealing nature of Firefox is that it’s the same application, plug-ins are consistent across different operating systems and the behavior of the application should be the same.

But if your an user that’s used to using Firefox in the Windows operating system and then you migrate, or start using Ubuntu with Firefox, you’ll notice a strange missing behavior from Firefox.

One of the basic functions of the browser is to be able to press the backspace key and go to the previous page, but for some reason, in Ubuntu 9.10, this function is disabled.

Here’s how you fix that…

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From my standpoint, Nuance would be the last company I would see that would be offering a free product to the public, even more so a FREE PDF reader, but they have; they’ve come out with their own PDF viewer for FREE.

The installation file is 18mb. It’s a MSI file, just double-click the file to run it. The PDF reader from Adobe is much larger than this; Adobe Reader is complete BLOAT-ware.

Nuance has shown up to put Adobe in it’s place and beat Adobe at their own game. It’s nice to know someone else is doing it besides Steve Jobs.

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I’m a new user to Ubuntu, but I really want to try something new, different, from Windows and I’ve been downloading the various versions as they’ve been released to see the progression of the Operating System.

The progression of Ubuntu has been really good over the past few years and when DELL said they were going to start passing out Ubuntu with your PC’s and laptops, I thought that was great.

The thing is Ubuntu doesn’t seem to get any respect from software and hardware makers.

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Making Firefox that much easier to use a common goal of everyone. I found this plug-in and I like how it works.

The basics of it are that when you double click a word(s) the terms can be searched by a quick popup window.

I thas some social and search functions from the popup that makes finding that unknown word or researhing a term very easy to research; even Twitter it.

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