Falkon browser startpage search does not work

Installed Falkon browser and noticed when I search with startpage it just redirects me to startpage homepage.  Played with the URL and postdata settings some and it just kept doing the same thing.  Even if I used a format that worked in Firefox the same thing would not work in Falkon.  Eventually I got this format to work for using Falkon and startpage as the default search engine.

https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?cat=web&language=english&q=%s

Falkon browser no menu and certificate errors

 Recently installed Falkon web browser and right away I was getting SSL certificate errors on every site I went to.  Then I noticed there was no menu button / icon either.  Seemed very odd.  When trying to find out what Falkon I installed realized I accidentally installed this

falkon.i686

instead of this

falkon.86_64

After I switched to the falkon.86_64 package everything was normal.

Fix : XFCE wont cycle minimized windows

Here is the problem.

• Inside XFCE have many windows open.
• Minimize the current window.
• Press ALT-TAB. It does not go back to the window I just minimized.
• The window I just minimized is now at the end of the ALT-TAB list.

To fix this go into Settings Manager and check the box "Cycle through minimized windows in the most recently used order".

Epiphany browser change useragent

1.  Open Linux terminal and run this

gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany.web:/org/gnome/epiphany/web/ user-agent 'USER AGENT GOES HERE'

2.  Restart browser.

3. Double check and your useragent is now updated

To reset the Epiphany useragent to default

1.  Do the same command but with '' at the end instead

gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany.web:/org/gnome/epiphany/web/ user-agent ''

Linux Mint / Ubuntu - Low volume bluetooth speaker

I have the Bose SoundLink Micro bluetooth speaker and sometimes when connecting to my laptop the volume seems really low.  This is what fixes it for me.

* let it auto-connect

* disconnect in Linux

* manually reconnect using the bluetooth manager in Linux

After that my volume is back to normal.

 

Firefox DNS over HTTPS and "connection timed out"

I noticed on I site I use a lot suddenly images were not loading properly.  This happens sometimes with this site so I did not think much about it.  But then I notice no other users are complaining about it, and notice the images load ok in Chromium.

I double checked about:networking in Firefox and notice it's trying to do the IPv4 lookup , which fails.  But Chromium does the IPv6 lookup, which worked.

After I turned off DNS over HTTPS and restart Firefox it worked ok.  Before restarting Firefox it did not work.

Settings > Privacy & Security (scroll to bottom)