Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

How to remove the InstantBuzz toolbar

In desperately trying to get visitors I installed the InstantBuzz Toolbar (stupid me?). I read about how many have had trouble uninstalling/removing the toolbar. Here's a simple instruction on how to do it.

1. Don't follow the instructions by InstantBuzz. They don't usually work.

2. If you have installed the toolbar in Firefox, remove it now: Click Tools - Add-ons and Uninstall it. This requires you to restart Firefox.

3. Disable the toolbar in Internet Explorer. The method will depend on your IE version. I have an old version, so I can't really help with the new ones. Post a comment if you know how to do it in the newest version, or if you want to know how to do it.

4. Remove it from Control Panel - Add/Remove programs. This will require a computer restart, after which the program is completely removed.

5. Check your computer with AdAware, or other spyware remover. I didn't have anything on my computer after following these instructions, but some have had.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Linux problems

Been using Ubuntu for the last couple of months. First installed Ubuntu, which was just too slow. Then I tried Kubuntu, which didn't work at all (problems with graphics). I now have Xubuntu, which ran ok... after uninstalling OpenOffice and not using Firefox at all... Installed IceWN and Fluxbox, of which Fluxbox seems to be the faster on my system. Nevertheless, I ended up having to download Opera (not free), as Firefox is just too slow. Someone really needs to make a good light web browser; yes, I've tried Links and Dillo, but they're far from complete. Why don't they have a lite version of Firefox? I only need to be able to view web pages: I don't need fancy password managers, text completion etc.

Even with my tweaks Linux is too slow on my computer, so I have to do all programming in XP. Been progressing in my Lua studies, and I'm already incorporating Lua scripting into my main project. I really like Lua's easy syntax for complicated tasks, such as passing a variable number of values returned from a function directly as parameters of another function.

Note to self: download Fluxbuntu and see how it differs from my Xubuntu-with-Fluxbox.