Does Firefox seem to beep when you use the Find feature? Well, it does for me. Or at least, it did.
I found two strings in about:config that were of importance:
accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound = true
accessibility.typeaheadfind.soundURL = ‘beep’
After setting the first one to false and restarting Firefox, the beeping stopped when I was finding text on a page. I suppose you could leave the first value alone and provide Firefox with a URL for a file to play, but I didn’t try it.
My old keyboard is almost dead. I bought it several years ago, and it is finally wearing out. The little rubber contacts underneath the keys are breaking, so the key stops working. I had bought the keyboard originally for my cluster system, but I ended up using it as my regular, everyday keyboard. It has “laptop style” keys: a very small depth difference on pressing the key and a scissor-switch-like design. I say scissor-switch-like because I had discovered that the keys were indeed missing the scissors. Thus, the rubber contacts were receiving the full force of the key presses; it’s no surprise that they were breaking after years of use. When the first few broke, I replaced them with those from keys that I didn’t use (Insert, Scroll Lock, etc.). As more and more started to break, I began to run out of keys to replace them with. Yesterday, I decided that it was time to buy a new keyboard. And heck, I thought I’d buy a new mouse along with it.
Well, there’s no more need for me to create scripts to simplify the process of setting up seamless virtualization through RDP. The latest version of VirtualBox, version 1.50, adds preliminary seamless virtualization support. It suppresses the desktop background, leaving the start menu and the windows. This method is much faster than RDP, which uses your network connection to handle the interface. I experimented with this new feature quite a bit. Screenshots below.
