Fixing Firefox IO in lab computers

Firefox is over protective to save you from crashes. That said it's vital to turn it off in the lab unless you enjoy waiting for 60 seconds for out Disk Server to respond (sorry about that).

Fixing it

• Press CTRL+L to select location bar
• Type "about:config" to the location bar, go there
• Ignore the warnign about voiding the warranty
• Write "crash"
• Double click on the entry labeled: browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash

And your firefox will be snappy once again.

Keyboard fix

Either right-click on the taskbar and "Add to Panel" a "Keyboard Indicator Applet". Then from its right-click preferences you can add United States or English.

There is a command-line possibility (open in Terminal):

setxkeymap en_US

If you add it to a file named .profile in your home directory it will be run every time you login.