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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to back up and restore your Firefox bookmarks
• Selling your smartphone? Do this first.
• Opinion: You shouldn’t have to call to cancel something you signed up for online
• Q&A: Why did they use to add lead to paint?
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Today’s quick tech tip….
How to back up and restore your Firefox bookmarks
Yesterday’s “Quick Tip” explained how to back up and restore the bookmarks in your Chrome browser so you’ll be able to restore them if they ever get lost or corrupted.
Today I’m going to explain how to back up and restore your bookmarks in Firefox. Just follow the steps below:
1 – Connect a USB flash drive to the computer to receive the exported bookmarks file.
2 – Open Firefox and click the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner of the widow, then select Bookmarks from the menu.
3 – At the bottom of the menu, select Manage bookmarks.
Note: The Bookmarks Library should now be open on your screen.
4 – Select Import and Backup from the top menu bar, then select Export Bookmarks to HTML from the menu.
5 – Navigate to the USB flash drive you connected in step 1, then click the Save button.
That’s all there is to it. You should now have a file named bookmarks.html on the USB flash drive containing a backup of all your Firefox bookmarks. I recommend that you place this drive in a secure place for safekeeping.
If you ever need to recover your bookmarks simply repeat the steps above using the same USB flash drive and select Import Bookmarks from HTML in step 4.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Selling your smartphone? Do this first.
This post explains what you need to do in order to safely sell your smartphone (or give it away to someone else).
• Opinion: You shouldn’t have to call to cancel something you signed up for online
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Q&A: Why did they use to add lead to paint?
There are actually some very good reasons.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Study: Children going to ER with battery-related injuries on the rise
• Instagram fixes sound issue that hindered TikTok exports
• Waymo opens up driverless robotaxi service in downtown Phoenix to vetted passengers
• Elon Musk subpoenas Twitter whistleblower
• New Windows 11 update could mean smaller, faster file transfers
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