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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 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

in firefox you could export bookmarks and passwords but be aware that passwords will be exported in plain text.

because its running as flatpak, the exported files should be somewhere in $HOME/.var/app/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@sun_is_ra @KickassWomen You can run Firefox as flatpak, snap, or you can use the Mozilla repository and install as .deb package. However no matter which way you use it, the video is broken on some Youtube videos, Bitchute has no audio, and Netflix won't play at all, which is why I switched to Thorium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Am using latest version of firefox but I am running it directly (no snap, flatpak, ..). I have zero problem with youtube videos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@sun_is_ra Great, what OS are you running, what release? I'm on Ubuntu-Mate 24.04, did not have issues with 22.04, but Thorium is working fine on 24.04.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am running Gentoo. Could be something Ubuntu related? Also is it possible that your Firefox profile was corrupted somehow and when you installed Thorium you got a fresh profile and that's why it worked well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

@sun_is_ra Oh definitely related, it was working ok under 22.04 not 24.04, but I suspect it has something to do with decoder ffmpeg, as other applications using it also have issues with H.264 v10 video. However Thorium does not. Perhaps it has it's own decoder rather than using ffmpeg.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

For me sites like YouTube, Rumble, Odysee, and Bitchute work but unfortunately this version of flatpak Firefox is giving me problems.