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Firefox 20 released for Fedora 15/16 and EL6

Remi released new versions of Firefox for Fedora 15, 16 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and clones. The new update (firefox 20) improves performance and resolves a few critical security bugs but also adds some new features like the new download “experience” (which is now basically the same as with Chrome) and the changed […]

Firefox 19 available for RHEL6/CentOS6

Remi published Firefox 19 for older Fedora releases (Fedora 15 and 16) as well as for RHEL6 and other enterprise clones (CentOS, Scientific Linux). The update is surely welcome for those who use CentOS 6 as a desktop OS (myself included) and don’t want to stick with the default ESR version of Firefox (even though […]

Firefox 19 brings native PDF support

Yes, finally. The pdf viewer is actually the only new feature in firefox 19, other changes are mainly bug fixes and improved functionality. No longer do we need to use the crappy Adobe Reader plugin which makes firefox even more RAM consuming than it already is. More info:   Firefox 19.0 Release Notes Download Firefox […]

Firefox bookmarks

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 […]