Browser Solutions

Anonymous Browsing With TOR — by Adam Ross — last modified Mar 18, 2008 03:29 PM

By combining TOR with Firefox, you can surf the web completely anonymously with just the click of a button. This how-to will show you how to install TOR and its Firefox add-on in just a matter of minutes.

Blackdown Java Installation x86_64 — by scott_glaser — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

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How To Browse Internet Anonymously Using Tor In Fedora — by Re Alvarez — last modified Mar 18, 2008 03:28 PM

This guide will explain how to install and configure Tor, Privoxy, Firefox and other application to surf internet anonymously.

How to install Songbird on Fedora — by Re Alvarez — last modified Mar 10, 2008 03:19 PM

Songbird is a web browser/ media player and a lot more. It is from Mozilla so it has to be one of the best. Although it is not yet released officially, we can take a sneek peek of Songbird. This HOWTO will guide you through the installation steps required to get Songbird running.

Improve Fonts in Fedora — by Walter Francis — last modified Jun 17, 2009 09:58 PM

Fedora ships with a reasonable configuration for most users, however, some tweaks can be applied if you're using an LCD. Additional improvements to font rendering can also be applied if you wish to enable a patent encumbered font renderer. The method to do each of these, separately, are outlined below. I suggest doing both to maximize your font appearance! In addition to these font rendering changes, there is also information for adding additional fonts to Fedora in the sections following. Please note that some suggested changes in this document can be very subjective based on individual preferences, hardware used, etc. The Troubleshooting section goes into some more detail in this regard and should be considered before making changes.

Installing Sun Java browser plugin — by opsec — last modified Oct 30, 2008 10:34 PM

This howto will show you how to painlessly install the Sun Java broswer plugin. You should be aware of several potential risks before you start. 1. Fedora uses gcj which is a free version of Java, but it is not Java. There are potential mix-match problems that can arise when compiling some applictions on development machines. 2. If your system is slow you may run into problems as Sun Java tends to be CPU and RAM intensive. 3. If you're running an x86_64 system and compiling 32bit applications without the proper chrooted environment it will most likely not work. The main purpose for this howto is only for a browser solution. If you need more in-depth instructions please see the howto here by Scott Glaser or the IcedTea howto by jmahowald. That said let's get started.

Java IcedTea (OpenJDK) — by jpmahowald — last modified May 07, 2008 03:38 AM

Previously to get a Sun JDK for Java required additional steps as it was not redistributable. With IcedTea, based on OpenJDK, there is a Fedora package of the Java 1.7 preview.

Netbeans IDE install — by strikeforce — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

This will show how to install the opensource Java IDE Netbeans. One of the more popular and easy to install IDE's with lots of additional features.

Speed Up Firefox — by scott_glaser — last modified Mar 02, 2008 12:29 AM

A tweak to Firefox to allow it to load pages quicker, utilizing multiple connections to a single site.

Sun Java Development Kit Installation — by strikeforce — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

This is the safest method of installing the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) which can be used to for compiling programs in Java. If you have the JDK installed, you do not need to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) since it is already included in the JDK.

Sun Java Installation — by scott_glaser — last modified Apr 18, 2009 06:59 PM

Some people are intimidated by the Jpackage installation process, for those people here is a "down and dirty" intallation without having to rebuild any packages. Steps 1 - 8 cover the basic plugin for Mozilla and Firefox. Steps 9 - 20 cover the requirements for programs that require Java, such as Limewire.