Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks

Tales from the Crypt() has a post titled Two Weeks Worth of Ubuntu in which is listed many tweaks and how-to's for getting some unruly applications up and running. Of interest is how-to's for specialized apps like Garmin GPS and Cisco VPN among others. Also listed are some nice replacements for Windows apps.
Nice tip on sound from Firefox in YouTube videos:

And then at a given point, Firefox was unable to output any sound from YouTube videos. The solution was a click away and spotted here: installing the alsa-oss package and making sure /etc/firefox/firefoxrc had “FIREFOX_DSP=aoss” instead of the default value.