If your OS is Linux, especially Ubuntu, and your favorite browser is Firefox, you might notice some annoying bug that Firefox often crashes when opening pages with some kind of Flash. In case you have never seen this situation, you may try to open any Hi5 profile pages. I have just found a trick that helps me stay away from that problem. Not so sure but it seems to work better than before.

The source of this trick is for Edgy but it works great in Hardy!

Last time, I built .deb packages of OpenOffice.org for Ubuntu Gutsy with backport patch, i18n38, that fixes critical bug regarding ICU. Now it's time to redo it again to the latest source.

Two weeks ago I published (1, 2) the patched version of OpenOffice.org to fix freezing problem on Ubuntu Gutsy. Anyway, it is only just for i386 architecture since I have only i386 and someone said no problem on amd64. I have just received 2 confirmations about this problem on amd64 so I tried to recompile it again on amd64 architecture.

After long waiting, fglrx 8.42.3 with AIGLX is here (Phoronix, Blognone). And now my laptop is Ubuntu Gutsy so my old instruction is obsoleted already. I note what I have done here in this post for further references.

If you noticed, I seems to disappear for 2 weeks because of freezing bug in OpenOffice.org. I spent 2 weeks for only one task; compiling OpenOffice.org on Ubuntu Gutsy. I'm not familiar with development environment used at Sun and in OpenOffice project. There are so many technical terms to learn. By the way, I finally add a patch from #81519 to OpenOffice.org 1ubuntu5 which my request #140878 is not responded yet. So it's time to share what I have done in this 2 weeks.

Everytime I boot up my laptop with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, it just like a bet, fail safe or not? Since I am using fglrx and I also installed it through module-assistant, I have to manage it myself to rebuild after updating kernel. However, last week I saw something more terrible. In fact, it is the most terrible since I used Ubuntu for 2 years. I was unable to see any characters in Gnome terminal. I guessed the problem should be DPI so I tried to change setting. Unfortunately, all Gnome dialog seemed to be broken. They were so long about 10 times of my screen.