Same.

I had been dualbooting between win10 and linux for quite some time, but at some point near the win10 EOL, I realized I had not booted to windows in ~8 months or so. Decided it was time to nuke the windows partitions.

Okular? Iirc it opens cbt and the likes fine.

I don’t think btop even records to any output file, it’s more of a “taskmanager with graphs” than a logging utility.

btop? it’s pretty customizable, if a bit too flashy (by default) to my liking. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop - should be available on repositories for most distros.

Defender is antimalware/antivirus. There at least used to be a separate firewall in windows, but not sure if it’s a part of defender or not.

Either way, “firewall” is traffic control, antimalware/virus is the execution guardian.

you can always add eg. a swap file later if needed - apparently not as good as a swap partition, but it is more flexible. With 48 GB of ram I hardly think you’re going to have issues, but that depends entirely on what do you do with the system.

Firewall isn’t really helping the system against you, it’s to block ousiders getting in - more or less.

install locations: if you just use what’s in mint’s repositories, you don’t really need to think about it. Out-of-repository stuff like steam games etc generally live in ~/.steam or so. Or in some dedicated path you configure in steam/whatever.

As for snap/flatpaks/whatever, haven’t used a single one. But in general: I’d favor the distribution’s repos, if at all possible for installs. If the app isn’t there, but is in snap… fine, I guess? As long as it’s managed by some kind of package manager for easy install/update/uninstall. But having to manually download and install from a website? Rather not, that’s when the maintenance becomes manual.

And of course, opinions are opionated. Your system, your rules. :P

looks like a subscription based extension / service for canned responses.

eg typing :pricing produces some canned response about whatever pricing you provide, with some tokens filled with recipients name etc. I guess it could be handy for some tasks, but paying for it? eeeh.

maybe perhaps related to this: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/

the affected addons list only mentions jiffyreader for chrome (or some addon masquerading as actual jiffy reader). Could be Mozilla found the addon doing something it shouldn’t?

edit: in jiffy reader’s github: https://github.com/ansh/jiffyreader.com/issues/342

We heard you like AI

…did you? Did you really?

TIL, has it been long when the restriction was dropped? At least wikipedia claims that firefox is webkit on ios, so possibly that is still the case?

afaik, they really can’t. IIRC apple only allows webkit browsers on the platform, so that alone rules out any and all extensions made for firefox. Firefox on iphones is essentially reskinned safari - and that’s about it.

At least this is what internet has led me to believe, dunno, not an apple user.

right click the toolbar -> customize toolbar -> drag it back to it from the palette that should now be visible?

Nope, never* have, never* will.

^{* until stated otherwise}

and you’re absolutely sure the files are av1? if you try to open the video files with ffmpeg, eg: ffmpeg -i videofile.mkv, what does it say the codec is?

at least my av1 videos say: Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: av1 (libdav1d) (Main) (av01 / 0x31307661), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 854x854, 464 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 1:1, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 16k tbn (default)

seems like the codecs=‘something’ is REALLY nitpicky. managed to get a test video to play with:

<video> 
    <source src="test.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401f"'>
</video>

I made the video by encoding some random clip with ffmpeg -i random_video.mp4 -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 30 test.mp4 (seems to work just as well with libsvtav1)

As for how are you supposed to know the “4d401f”? beats me, found it here: https://caraya.github.io/av1-video-demo/

edit: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/codecs_parameter#av1 does say that the codec string should look a bit different, but… I dunno, not a video-understanding-webmonke.

edit2: and now I realize that since it works with the codecs=avc1 - it’s the older av1 variant? Not really what you were asking. Whoopsiedaisy.

oh, I’ve been wondering about this, as I’ve had occasional youtube-video just enter the infinite buffering. Oddly it has only happened on linux o_O

just… bookmark folder? menu -> bookmarks -> “…” on the bookmark folder you want -> open all in private tabs?

if firefox is the default browser, I guess just start "" "https://your.url.here.foo", as per https://superuser.com/a/36730

otherwise, I guess you could just cd to firefox’s directory and do the same firefox.exe urlhere

as for specific window… yea that might be tad hard. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions doesn’t seem to have any way to indicate any specific instance/window from cli.

could be firefox handles those internally, kinda seems like urls open up in the window which was last active. So… I guess you could start the script by starting firefox with --new-instance or --new-window, and patiently wait until urls are open? I guess.

Assuming you know what you’re doing, maybe some script? At least on linux something like this seems to work:

#!/bin/bash

urls_file="${HOME}/path/to/url_list.txt";
sleep_time=1;

while read -r line;
do
    firefox "${line}";
    sleep ${sleep_time};
done < "${urls_file}";

edit: heh, tried to delete this as irrelevant, as I entirely missed the clipboard & requirement for a button IN firefox… but it didn’t really delete it seems. Oh well, leaving this in for laughs.

Anyhoo, if you need to speed up/throttle the link opening somehow, maybe add some incremental counter there and skip sleeping if counter < 10 or whatever.

menu -> print -> “save as pdf”? seems to be there just like it’s on desktop version