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By default firefox saves your bookmarks to ~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILE.default/bookmarkbackups You can see there a bunch of *.json files. ls   ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarkbackups bookmarks-2010-07-07.json  bookmarks-2010-07-29.json  bookmarks-2010-08-03.json  bookmarks-2010-08-05.json  bookmarks-2010-08-06.json  bookmarks-2010-08-10.json If you use more than one machine or you’ve recently changed / reinstalled your OS and you want to restore the old bookmarks, you need to import them manually: backup [...]

Thunderbird 3.1.2 has been released, adding fixes to improve stability and the user interface. I’m using Fedora 13 and the update isn’t available yet in the official repositories. I could use an unofficial repo, such as Remi, to get the updates more quickly, but the easiest way for me is to use the precompiled binaries [...]

Fedora Project announced two “unexpected bugs” that affect Fedora 13. It looks like some users can no longer see the package update notification in the main panel or apply the updates using the update applet. Updated packages to fix these bugs were released 2 weeks ago, but the users were not prompted to install them, [...]

alias is a built-in Linux command that defines shortcuts to longer (sets of) commands. The alias name is in fact a link to another command or command sequence. The Bash shell system wide aliases are set in /etc/bashrc, while users can define their own in ~/.bashrc. $ cat ~/.bashrc # .bashrc # Source global definitions [...]