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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#21 Post by Stevo »

That deserves a tweet or toot, IMO!

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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#22 Post by turtlebay777 »

Stevo wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:08 pm
turtlebay777 wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:46 pm I don't know my a** (er, donkey) from my elbow with programming but thanks guys (and/or girls) for your interest.
I can't find Waterfox in the Mint repos, so I suspect they've just added the Waterfox one. http://packages.linuxmint.com/

If you look in the repo settings in Mint's Synaptic, that might be evident.
Did you look in the Mate version repos or just Cinnamon? I only used Mint Mate.

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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#23 Post by Stevo »

I used the search function in that link, which I believe covers all packages that Mint hosts in their own repos.

Since Mint installs inxi as default like MX, you could show us the result of "inxi -r" in your Mint for the list of repos it's using.

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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#24 Post by malspa »

PondLife wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:47 pm If anyone wants to install Waterfox directly from the Waterfox web site I found this method
Thank you for posting those steps!

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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#25 Post by turtlebay777 »

Stevo wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:17 pm I used the search function in that link, which I believe covers all packages that Mint hosts in their own repos.

Since Mint installs inxi as default like MX, you could show us the result of "inxi -r" in your Mint for the list of repos it's using.

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pete@pete-Inspiron-1545 ~ $ inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb https://dl.bintray.com/hawkeye116477/waterfox-deb release main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list
           deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot all main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/danielrichter2007-grub-customizer-trusty.list
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu trusty main
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu trusty main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com rosa main upstream import #id:linuxmint_main
           deb http://extra.linuxmint.com rosa main #id:linuxmint_extra
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty partner
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oibaf-graphics-drivers-trusty.list
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu trusty main
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu trusty main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/samoilov-lex-aftl-stable-trusty.list
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/samoilov-lex/aftl-stable/ubuntu trusty main
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/samoilov-lex/aftl-stable/ubuntu trusty main
pete@pete-Inspiron-1545 ~ $ 
Hope that helps Stevo, sorry for the delay but only just come back to my Mint computer

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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#26 Post by Stevo »

Yup, right there at the top...it's the same Waterfox repo as the MX Package Installer is now adding, so they aren't building it, either.

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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#27 Post by turtlebay777 »

hawkeye - wasn't he one of the doctors in M.A.S.H.!

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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#28 Post by Mauser »

Thank you for putting Waterfox in the MX Package Installer. Unfortunately there is no information on how to import bookmarks. Does anyone know how to import all the bookmarks from Firefox to Waterfox?
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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#29 Post by turtlebay777 »

The long winded way is to open Firefox, go to Bookmarks/show all bookmarks/Import and Backup/Export bookmarks to HTML and save the file somewhere on your hard drive (I usually use desktop).

Then close Firefox and open Waterfox, then follow the same route except the last step which is obviously Import bookmarks from HTML and point to the file you saved on your desktop.

Takes much longer to type it than do it!

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Re: Request for Waterfox [SOLVED]

#30 Post by fehlix »

in addition to the exported html-bookmarks, you can import the saved json-bookmarks too.
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