First time for everything.
I installed 9.10 alpha 6 on a new partition. Thought I try out the new Firefox Installer (under K > Applications > Internet). Worked great. For fun I opened Firefox, opened Bookmarks (menu at top), and there was a extensive set of my bookmarks. It was an old set, going back some months. Where did this come from? I had absolutely no personal data moved into my 9.10 /home yet, no external media connected (e.g., no flash drive containing my Firefox profiles), nothing, nada--a brand new OS installation. My best guess is that some FX extension like XMarks (Foxmarks) had something to do with it. I did see a note that 5 add-ons had been installed to my new Firefox (I didn't ask for them). However, I don't ever recall seeing such a note in the past in my other Firefox installations (in other OSs), nor did I ever willfully install any Bookmark add-ons (I use only NoScript, nothing else). How bizarre, huh? If this is true, then an old copy of my bookmarks is on a Firefox server (I would think). Kind of an invasion of privacy I'd say (if this is true). I un-installed this Firefox, deleted the profile (in my .mozilla folder), re-booted, re-installed Firefox, this time I saw no notice of any add-ons being installed, and this time my Bookmarks was empty (as it should be). I suppose my next step would be to see (at the FX site) how one removes himself from this game (of having his personal data on their server).
I installed 9.10 alpha 6 on a new partition. Thought I try out the new Firefox Installer (under K > Applications > Internet). Worked great. For fun I opened Firefox, opened Bookmarks (menu at top), and there was a extensive set of my bookmarks. It was an old set, going back some months. Where did this come from? I had absolutely no personal data moved into my 9.10 /home yet, no external media connected (e.g., no flash drive containing my Firefox profiles), nothing, nada--a brand new OS installation. My best guess is that some FX extension like XMarks (Foxmarks) had something to do with it. I did see a note that 5 add-ons had been installed to my new Firefox (I didn't ask for them). However, I don't ever recall seeing such a note in the past in my other Firefox installations (in other OSs), nor did I ever willfully install any Bookmark add-ons (I use only NoScript, nothing else). How bizarre, huh? If this is true, then an old copy of my bookmarks is on a Firefox server (I would think). Kind of an invasion of privacy I'd say (if this is true). I un-installed this Firefox, deleted the profile (in my .mozilla folder), re-booted, re-installed Firefox, this time I saw no notice of any add-ons being installed, and this time my Bookmarks was empty (as it should be). I suppose my next step would be to see (at the FX site) how one removes himself from this game (of having his personal data on their server).
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