agit8.org » add-on http://www.agit8.org Musings about technology Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:49:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Connecting Android Tablet to the TAFE wireless network http://www.agit8.org/2011/06/08/connecting-android-tablet-to-the-tafe-wireless-network/ http://www.agit8.org/2011/06/08/connecting-android-tablet-to-the-tafe-wireless-network/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:00:59 +0000 johannes http://www.agit8.org/?p=316 Continue reading →]]> Well, I must say that working with an Android tablet poses a lot of challenges. Firstly, to get my tablet to connect to the corporate Wifi network at a TAFE college was a serious challenge for my sanity. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why anyone would want to ship a tablet operating system without any configurable proxy setting. Most tablet users would want to take their tablet to work and connect to a wireless network that uses, guess what, proxies.

Luckily, my sanity was saved by the ability of Mozilla Firefox (for Android) to have a proxy setting (via an Add-on), but the method that I had to use to connect to the wireless network at TAFE is so bizzare, that it defies any logic (this same craziness applies to using my Mac laptop as well). Unless you are using Internet Explorer on Windows, then your milage varies quite a bit.

The procedure on the Android tablet goes like this:

  • Start Firefox mobile, then turn off proxy settings in the proxy add-on
  • Type some random URL in the address bar
  • Authentication page will come up.
  • Authenticate
  • Go to Add-on setting and enable proxy.
  • Close the browser
  • Open the browser
  • Authenticate again
  • Browse the internet
  • After an hour, repeat all the above steps.

Bizarre or not?

]]> http://www.agit8.org/2011/06/08/connecting-android-tablet-to-the-tafe-wireless-network/feed/ 0 Has Google Maps Stopped Working in Firefox? http://www.agit8.org/2008/07/15/has-google-maps-stopped-working-in-firefox/ http://www.agit8.org/2008/07/15/has-google-maps-stopped-working-in-firefox/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:29:31 +0000 johannes http://www.agit8.org/2008/07/15/has-google-maps-stopped-working-in-firefox/ Continue reading →]]> Recently while I was on the run I needed to find a location on a map and of course I immediately fired up my trusty new netbook and launched Firefox. Lo and behold, I could not get Google Maps to display whatsoever. I tried refreshing the page, I tried relaunching it and finally I had to fire up Internet Explorer to access the map. Since I usually avoid using Internet Explorer at all costs, this was really an exception.

I thought it might have something to do with my connection setup, but after a little bit of digging and retracing of my actions, I remembered that I had just updated Skype and I noticed that it installed an add-on onto Firefox. After I disabled this add-on from Skype, Google maps loaded effortlessly. Since I do not know what this add-on does and why it is there in the first place, I am probably not going to miss it.

So if your google maps not loading in Firefox 3.0, do not hesitate and disable that plug in to get your maps back. Someone at Skype needs to check this.

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