Firefox recently 'improved' the behavior of its search bar to let the user have more 'choice'. Opting out of the choices offered still doesn't reset the search bar to the simplicity some might prefer1. But you can fix that: go to about:config in the address bar, enter browser.search.showOneOffButtons in about:config's search, and toggle its value from true to false. That's it.
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Xubuntu's Utopic theme
Anyone installing Xubuntu 14.10 will find that menu highlights have all turned a pretty purplish-pink. For those who want to revert to the standard blue theme, go to Settings -> Theme Configuration and toggle Custom Highlight Colors off. That was either a feature or some great trolling on the part of the devs.
Dropbox on Xubuntu
Dropbox works with Gnome's Nautilus (now perversely called Files) but not Xfce's Thunar; installing from the Dropbox website doesn't work, and nor does installing from Software Center (ie the repo's). But you can get it to work by installing from the repo's and then installing thunar-dropbox-plugin from dev:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/extras
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thunar-dropbox-plugin
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Ubuntu fglrx overscan
Using proprietary AMD drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 causes overscan issues and results in a smaller image 'projected' on your LCD display with black bars around the sides. For a permanent fix, type
sudo aticonfig --initial
sudo aticonfig --set-pcs-val=MCIL,DigitalHDTVDefaultUnderscan,0
-from here1Why did this happen?
Mozilla and Google have been falling out of late. This could be because of Android's (and therefore Chrome's) rocketing marketshare negating the need to share ad revenues, and also the diverging aims of ad-driven companies and privacy purists. More than just privacy purists - all those who want to have their AdBlock2 and eat their Google cake too. Right now, people like us are living off of the big data blood of people who either don't know or can't be bothered to block, or perhaps in the torrent of data being sucked up, ours is too small to be worth going after. But it's not certain that this state of affairs will continue.
2 Though there currently isn't an accepted middle between putting up with horrible byte-heavy flash monstrosities and blocking them out completely, AdBlock's 'inoffensive ad' filter is a step in that direction, and in any case offensively annoying flash ads sure aren't the only means of monetization.
