Category: Tech

Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox extension, providing a veritable boatload of tab features and also a session manager. You can rearrange tabs, protect tabs from being closed, unclose tabs, have a loading bar for each tab show up in its little name spot, and my favorite feature of all: Making multiple rows of tabs! When I max out my tabs in Firefox, what usually happens is that they extend off the side of the window, making it very tricky to work nicely with them. Now, they wrap around and make a second row. Whoo hoo!

I don’t have many problems with Firefox stability, but I faked a crash to check out the crash helper thing. When I restarted Firefox, Tab Mix Plus came up and asked if I wanted to restore from the crashed session.

Here’s to you, Tab Mix Plus.

If you read my posts for the last two months or so, you’ll notice I’ve had no end to the troubles given to me by my girlfriend’s computer. One day, it started having black flickering lines that occured when you typed, or sometimes moved the mouse. I ended up replacing all the hardware, and it still happened! It was better on the new hardware, so she continued to use it.

I even posted the question on Ask.Metafilter! No dice. A few days ago, however, someone online sent me an email via my contact form, and asked if I had solved it yet. I had not. He replied back today, saying he had solved the problem.

Are you ready? The problem was:

xscreensaver 4.23

After upgrading to the new xscreensaver, everything worked perfect. The black lines are gone.

More information is available at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336368.