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I'm using Flatpak Firefox (version 131.0.3) and it keep freezing especially on sites like YouTube. How do I transfer my bookmarks and passwords to an earlier version of FF without using Sync? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by KickassWomen@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

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I'm going to use this guide to downgrade Firefox to something around version 127 or below because I did not have this issue with earlier versions of FF.

Btw where does Firefox store crash logs? I typed "about:crashes" in the URL bar but it says that "No crash reports have been submitted". I have also used journalctl to find these errors but I'm not sure how relevant they are:

org.mozilla.firefox.desktop[15004]: Exiting due to channel error.

org.mozilla.firefox.desktop[49355]: [Parent 2, Main Thread] WARNING: g_strv_length: assertion 'str_array != NULL' failed: 'glib warning', file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187

firefox-bin[49355]: g_strv_length: assertion 'str_array != NULL' failed

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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been having issues with Firefox since v128, and I've tried snap, flatpak, and straight from the Mozilla repository. I ended up switching to Thorium which works with all the same plugins I was using for Firefox, has the same general layout, AND can import my bookmarks and passwords from Firefox so it was a pretty seamless transition.

[–] KickassWomen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I appreciate your recommendation but I'm boycotting Google and as much of its tech as possible—that's why I was using Firefox.

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@KickassWomen Alexander Frick is the lead developer of the Thorium browser. Thorium is a cross-platform, open-source web browser based on Chromium. That's Chromium as in the open source browser, not Chrome as in the Google browser, and it still has the old API that works with ad-blockers. I am using ublock origin with it and it works great.

[–] KickassWomen@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It uses Google's Chromium engine, that's the problem.

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@KickassWomen It is primarily maintained by them but it is an open sourced project and there are other contributors. But whatever, if you find something that doesn't involve Google and still properly functions and doesn't do slimy tactics like replace a vendors ads with it's own, AKA Brave, I'm interested, in the meantime I need something that at least functions which Firefux ceased to do.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

It is primarily maintained by them but it is an open sourced project and there are other contributors.

Chromium may be technically open-source, but Google still controls it and has been caught abusing that power before. People concerned about privacy have good reason avoid it.