Mozilla Dash

I am on FF 4 beta 10 and I installed this addon. It was highly hyped at many sites. However, it was a bit of disappointment.
Why?

• It is not intuitive enough
• Even after being a heavy internet user, I had to struggle to get back my tabs
• It does not show the url
• This might be a good thing that you can search and find links. But, how do I make sure that the search result is correct and I am on the expected link? This is a problem especially when I am on sites that do financial transactions. 
• The UI was not up to the mark. I could see that the fonts of menu items were cut at bottom half

Well, so, whats good about it? Its still experimental. We can hope that it will get improved :)

64 bit flash preview

Adobe is back with 64 bit flash for Linux. This is a preview and grab it before they close it again. Last time when they had tried this, there were a number of security issues and preview was pulled down soon.

Installation:

1. Download the preview version from Adobe labs site
2. Untar the downloaded plugin 
3. Copy the resulting plugin to your firefox plugin folder
1. I had to first create this: mkdir /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/plugins
2. Copy libflashplayer.so to that folder
4. Just re-start firefox and you are ready to browse the flash sites :)

Download link
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.html

(Its not easy to find the link. It took me 10 minutes to find this. Though there is a get beta note on the download page, it does not take you directly here)

Horde on F10

I wanted to install horde-webmail version on my Fedora 10. First and foremost, (my?) F10 seems to have weird problems with yum. So far my upgrade has failed 2-3 times for dependencies not satisfied. I had to get a few F9 rpms for satisfying these deps. With horde, I faced the following two issues.

1. When I installed horde-webmail, the installation script complained about DOM not being support by PHP. I had to manually install php-xml.
2. After installation, it complained about imap extension not being supported. I tried a "yum install php-imap"
Result...

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package php-imap available.
Nothing to do

yum repolist
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
repo id repo name status
fedora Fedora 10 - i386 enabled : 2,220
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 10 - Free enabled : 324
rpmfusion-free-updat RPM Fusion for Fedora 10 - Free - Update enabled : 262
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 10 - Nonfree enabled : 142
rpmfusion-nonfree-up RPM Fusion for Fedora 10 - Nonfree - Upd enabled : 163
updates Fedora 10 - i386 - Updates enabled : 2,850

Then I had to download this package from F10's site.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/php-imap-5.2.6-5.i386.rpm

Yes. It was there. But yum did not recognize it. After downloading, I did a "yum localinstall php-imap-5.2.6-5.i386.rpm"
With this, and a restart of httpd, I was able to remove the imap extension error.

These are the points that I noticed.

1. Horde's installation is not user friendly.
2. F10's yum is screwed beyond any help
3. Horde has a bug that does an endless loop when php-imap extension is not found.
4. Firefox gracefully handles this situation
5. Konqueror fails miserably to handle above situation.

I am still fighting with Horde. More updates later.