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I use Bitwarden to manage login credentials and that makes it easy enough to transfer that info, and Firefox Sync handles bookmarks etc, so no fiddling with files required. The only real hassle is getting logged out of so many sites and having to re-authenticate so many times. The weird thing is thi...

I hadn't previously seen the about:profiles page before, many thanks for the tip. On that page, I tried the following: 1.) restarted firefox with all extensions disabled. Twitter still crashes its tab. 2.) created a new profile and launched it in a new window. Twitter no longer crashes its tab. 3.) ...

coffee412 wrote: ⤴Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:18 pm what I would do is import your profile from the zip file

Very helpful suggestion. A quick question: how do you import a Mozilla profile? I see an import wizard, but that only seems to import a Chrome account. What am I overlooking?
TIA

If you start firefox from inside a term window you might catch the crash error. This could lead you to a solution. Good idea! The following error message is displayed in terminal when a tab crashes: [Parent 372043, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 373584 exited on signal 11: file /builds/worker/che...

Thanks, I think I'm going to disable the various extensions I've installed over the years, maybe the issue lies with some third-party code/incompatability

A few days ago I upgraded to Firefox v114 and certain sites now crash tabs. It seems to be sites which (I think) make heavy use of Javascript, notably Facebook, LinkedIn, Whatsapp web, Twitter, Nextcloud, but of course it could be something wholly unrelated. Just wondering whether anyone else is see...

Hi all, Over the past few days I've upgraded two different Thinkpads running v20.3 to v21 using the mintupgrade tool. Both times mintupgrade crashed part way through because it ran out of diskspace. The first time this happened was with the OS installed on an ext4 partition. mintupgrade appears to r...

Yes, now I can select the interface. I will henceforth do likewise. Thanks again

Much better! Thank you

Hi all, I have Mint v20.1 installed on an older Thinkpad. The network interface card is the Intel 7265, which supports Bluetooth v4.2. I usually have the Thinkpad parked in a docking station, which also has a network interface; this one appears to support Bluetooth v4.0. Recently I bought a Sennheis...

Thanks hglee , that worked. Bluetooth Manager appears to automatically select the second BT interface, hci1. I've paired the Sennheiser headset and it seems to work fine. The Sennheiser can be paired with two devices, and now I just need to figure out how to swap back and forth between laptop and An...

I don't see a second device in Bluetooth Manager. Don't know exactly what I should be seeing, but I would assume if there are more than two BT devices active some kind of selector would be visible.

Hi all, I have a new Sennheiser headphone which supports Bluetooth v5. With my Android phone, which supports v5, the audio quality is fantastic. I would if possible like to connect this headphone to my Thinkpad, which only supports an older Bluetooth version. I'm running Mint 21 MATE. I bought a MPO...

Hi all, I own an Epson V550 scanner, which I haven't used for awhile. I am now trying to get it working again under Mint (19.3). From the Epson site, I downloaded and installed their driver: imagescan-bundle-linuxmint-19-3.59.2.x64.deb . I plug in the scanner: $ dmesg | tail [25965.476408] usb 1-1.2...

Hi all, When I install Linux, I always just go for the default locale, en_US, and leave it at that. However, I live in Europe and prefer 24h time etc formats. I would like to stick with the en_US interface but have my Thunderbird calendars using European time/date formats. Apparently one approach is...

Perfect, many thanks! NetworkMangler is back in charge!

I suppose copying /etc/hosts hither and yon is not so much trouble, mostly a matter of what you are used to.

sudo rm -f /etc/resolv.conf sudo ln -s /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf reboot now you can edit /etc/resolv.conf until you are satisfied and it will be permanent Thanks, this might be the way to go. One quick question: if this were a desktop system, I would simply edit that file an...

1. Use Avahi/ZeroConf rather then your router's DNS server. If machine "hostname" has Avahi running it should work to address it as "hostname.local" from any other machine running Avahi/Bonjour. 2. Have your LAN hosts check in as, say, "hostname.lan" with your router r...

No, just hostname, no .local suffix.

I see that if I edit /etc/resolv.conf and add my router manually, like this: LAN client lookup works like it does on the other systems. But of course that file is auto-generated, so it isn't a permanent fix, alas.

Thanks for the reply. Oops, you are right, I truncated the output. Here is the relevant bit Link 3 (wlp3s0) Current Scopes: DNS LLMNR setting: yes MulticastDNS setting: no DNSSEC setting: no DNSSEC supported: no DNS Servers: 192.168.2.254 fe80::ae64:62ff:fe80:5e09 So, yes it appears my router is pro...