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On a standard photo Gallery, you can select to mount Gallery on your desktop with a WebDAV client. I searched for an easy solution to mount webdav from the browser but was not able to find any scripts doing so with only one click. See the first picture to see how you find the link on a Gallery 2.0.

Here is the simple script: (Read more for an advanced script)

#!/bin/sh
 
DAVURL=`cat "$1" | grep ":url" | egrep -o "http[^< \"]+"`
DIR=`echo $DAVURL | egrep -o "[a-zA-Z0-9\.]" |xargs | sed s/\ //gi`
MOUNTPATH="/media/webdav.$DIR"
 
gksu -- mkdir $MOUNTPATH
gksu -- mount.davfs -onoaskauth $DAVURL $MOUNTPOINT
nautilus $MOUNTPOINT

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apt-get install firefox-3.5 changed the name of firefox to Shiretoko. After the browser upgrade, the facebook chat did not work as before.

To make the FaceBook work again, I installed the User Agent Switcher and added some user-agents.

Here is how my facebook chat menu was looking when I reported using Shiretoko as UserAgent:

When switching the UserAgent to report FireFox, I got the normal chat menu back: