Mozilla speaks, sort of

Powerline ^ | April 4, 2014 | Scott Johnson

[Utilizer]

What is so good about Opera?

Fast, very small memory requirements, and extremely difficult to crash.

[Utilizer]

...anyone know how to import bookmarks and calendar from firefox?

Been awhile since I last installed Opera instead of simply upgrading to a newer version, but I think either the first time you ran it or the second time it asks you if you want to import bookmarks. Failing that;

Firefox Bookmarks Export

Then, in Opera: [Settings][Import and Export][Import Firefox Bookmarks].

[Utilizer]

See post #62.

[sand88]

The newest Version of Opera (20.0) doesn't yet have the Bookmark Importer feature implemented. I installed Opera this morning. It seems quite fast. I have been removing FF from all my devices.

One can temporarily import bookmarks from FF to Chrome, or just export them to a JSON file. Then they are free to remove FF.

[Utilizer]

I am running Linux, with Opera 12.16 as the latest stable .deb available so I used that as the default example. The Firefox link is still valid, however; simply save the bookmarks in a single .html file and you can import that way.

[Organic Panic]

Diversity and inclusiveness as long as you hold to our ruthlessly enforced standards of thougt. Differ in any manner from approved thought and you will be destroyed.

[Principle Over Politics]

I am assuming you have Opera on your machine.

Have you read the “End-user license agreement and terms of service for Opera for desktop”? There seems to me to be some questionable language there, especially regarding third party software included, and and also “out of country” storage of your data.

This sounds like a spyware program to me.

[Utilizer]

I am indeed running Opera at the moment, and have quickly reviewed the EULA as well as the information provided by the browser itself and Opera.com. The third-party software refers to the various multimedia players that all browsers need for certain files such as shockwave flash and mp3 files, as well as a dictionary for example. I found no references for any out of country storage but I assume that refers to the Opera Portal, MyOpera, and Opera Mail functions, none of which are mandatory usage items.

"The source code modified by Opera is available for download at http://sourcecode.opera.com/gstreamer/."

Feel free to peruse it at your leisure, but since uncounted 'nix geeks and slashdotters have been doing so for at least fifteen years I think you can relax about any potential spyware being part of it.

[Utilizer]

Oh, and since they are based in Norway, that would probably explain why there might be some out of country links.

[Peet]

We have employees with a wide diversity of views. Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public.


You lie!

[ArcadeQuarters]

Feedback is at https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback

The feedback for today is close to 5,000 while the positive feedback is around 200. https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/

[publius911]

The pro-sodomy subculture must accept the fact that not supporting their deviant practices, or supporting traditional marriage is not the definition of hate speech.
Their inferences simply define and confirm the sociopathy of their behavior.

The rest of us don't have to buy into that!

[PoloSec]

Don’t know if you found an alternative yet, but on the advice of other freepers, I downloaded Pale Moon, it looks and works exactly like FF, and migration of FF profile is a breeze all bookmarks calender, all add-ons everything.

Check it out: http://www.palemoon.org/download-ng.shtml

If you download it Pale Moon will ask if you want to migrate IE favorites, I clicked do nothing, once you’ve completed download, you will need to download a FF migration tool, you will find it on the front page of PM, once you download that just follow instructions, very easy, now you may get a message download timed out, don’t worry about it, everything will be there when you open PM again.

It is not affiliated with FF, but you can’t tell the difference.