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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 28, 2023
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
=> https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxAddonsBackUpSettings ↺ You should back up the settings for your Firefox addons periodically
Many of my Firefox addons have some sort of configuration settings, and yours probably do too (if you use addons). uMatrix and uBlock Origin have a collection of filtering settings, Foxy Gestures has my gesture customizations, Stylus has a bunch of styles, Cookie AutoDelete knows which cookies I don't want to delete, and so on. All of these would be annoying or painful to have to recreate from scratch, and all of these addons offer a way to back up ('export') and restore ('import') their settings. I've done that before (although not for all of my addons), but up until now I've only been doing it very sporadically, as in once every few years (when my settings for some extensions change much more often).
=> https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/enterprise-services-and-applications/government-has-issued-an-important-warning-for-these-microsoft-users/97364749 ↺ Government has issued an ‘important’ warning for these Microsoft users
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), the government body responsible for highlighting bugs and vulnerabilities in operating systems and services, has found several new vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Edge web browser. The government body has issued a warning for the same and has classified it as ‘high’ severity.
“Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) which could be exploited by a remote attacker to gain elevated privilege and bypass security restrictions on the targeted system”, CERT-In has mentioned on its website.
=> https://www.talospace.com/2023/01/firefox-109-on-power.html ↺ Firefox 109 On POWER
As before linking still requires patching for bug 1775202 using this updated small change or the browser won't link on 64-bit Power ISA (alternatively put --disable-webrtc in your .mozconfig if you don't need WebRTC). Otherwise the browser builds and runs fine with the LTO-PGO patch for Firefox 108 and the .mozconfigs from Firefox 105.
=> https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/what-is-firefox-nightly-and-should-you-be-using-it/ ↺ What is Firefox Nightly and should you be using it? | ZDNET
First and foremost, there's the Stable version, which is probably what you're using now. The Stable version is reliable for most use cases and includes plenty of new features and security patches.