Pale Moon Browser

I have been running tests on the Pale Moon alternative Firefox build and I am very pleased.

One high point for me is that a layout error in Firefox 13 is not present (it affects my Curl kanji review applets when minimizing the browser to the size of the applet.)

Pale Moon is recovering memory after Tools | Clear Recent History which is a welcome change.

This build may be the answer for any netbook running an Atom processor with the Windows 7 starter version.

The wikipedia article on Pale Moon is here.

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Asus Netbook and EeeBuntu (again)

Again I find myself coming back from a sleeping netbook to no wireless connection.

I thought I would post what seems to work well enough short of a diagnosis or fix:

The idea is to stop and restart two processes.
Open a terminal session then enter

sudo pkill nm-applet
sudo pkill NetworkManager
sudo NetworkManager &
sudo nm-applet &

Now the nm-applet returns to the topbar, shows wireless connections and my wireless in fact reconnects automatically within a few seconds of completing this little reset task.

The trailing ampersands leave the process running; you may not need the sudo if you run as root (for daily use I always login as a user)
You may also run the "services" app from the applications menu to check that you are not needlessly running a Bluetooth process which you do not use.

I have not had time to look into which update(s) to this EeeBuntu 3.0 may be the culprit(s).

Post a comment if you have a tip or correction ...

And I still love EeeBuntu on this lil' netbook !