Update: it seems like a lot of people find this useful. With the final release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, xulrunner-1.9.2 is in the main repository. Because of this, just uninstall xulrunner-1.9.1 and you’re done. I like living on the edge: I use Ubuntu Lucid and Eclipse 3.6M5 on my x86-64 notebook. Since the 25th [...]

I regularly use Thunderbird 3.0 betas on my Karmic via the Ubuntu Daily Mozilla PPA. Unfortunately the PPA also contains snapshot builds of Firefox 3.5 and XulRunner 1.9.1, which I want to keep at their standard Ubuntu versions. To make apt-get upgradeing as painless as possible I am using package pinning to stop unwanted packages [...]

Since GTK+ 2.18 has introduced Client Side Windows, a couple of problems have appeared in Eclipse 3.5. One of them was resolved in GTK+ 2.18.0 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589963), the other one needs fixing at the SWT-level (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287307) Since I don’t want to run Eclipse 3.6 milestones yet, I created a small diff between the two SWT versions [...]