Firefox add-on: Google Wave Notifier

So... of course you are logged into Google Wave all of the time, looking for new blips in your wavelets constantly.
When, by chance, you have logged out, navigated away from Wave, or whatever, it would be nice to be notified when updates have occurred, wouldn't it?

Now there is the Google Wave Add-on for Firefox. It shows you the number of unread messages, and whenever new messages arrive it pops up a small notification window.

Go check it out at
http://thatsmith.com/2009/10/google-wave-add-on-for-firefox or install it directly by clicking here

Happy Waving!

OpenSUSE: Flashplayer update and bad sound

So.... when I came back from a long december holiday, my openSUSE 11 machine had a lot of updates to install.

One of them was the flash player update which plugs the huge security hole that was found.

After this update my sound in flash movies (like youtube) was crap: choppy and halting sound. That sucks!

At first I restored the old version, which worked, but then I was vulnerable again. So to resolve this, I installed the downloaded version from the adobe website which is currently at version 10.0.0.15.3.

The easiest way to do this, is download the tar.gz file from adobe, and extract it:
$ tar xzvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

Next, go into the install_flash_player_10_linux directory and copy the file libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/browser-plugins. You must be root to write to that location.

Restart firefox and you're done: (near) perfect sound.

Firefox 3 released

available at getfirefox.com

The openSUSE team is preparing the full official online update for Firefox.