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Thank you. Even the article recommends not doing anything unless needed for some reaon: "If something goes wrong during the BIOS update, your PC or laptop could be rendered useless. If there’s a power cut, or the computer gets turned off while updating, it could mean that it’s unable to boot at...

Vantage is not now loaded and I'm not inclined to do so unless needed. I generally subscribe to the ...don't fix it attitude, but thought I would get other opinions. Thanks

I have an older Thinkpad (2016 I think) that works beautifully. I've had it for about 5 years and during that time it has never had a firmware update. Is it recommended that these updates be done? If so, how often? Lenovo has software called Vantage, but I'm not sure it it is worthwhile or...

I will start some new threads. I wll also heed the warning about Grub Customizer. I know enough to get myself into trouble, but usually not enough to get out. Avoidance is better. Thanks for the help.

I decided to run the code first and then, if that didn't work, I could use Timeshift. It did work. Thanks for the correction. Are those 4 lines of code necessary after upgrades from one version to the next? May I say, if Grub Customizer is problematic, someone should either fix it or remove it...

Sorry. My brain said 36 to 37. My fingers said somtinng different. Like a bull in a china shop, I grabbed Grub Customizer and it showed a new grub menu list including Kernel 6.1.18-200. I saved it and, when I reboot, the grub menu does in fact show the latest kernel and it does boot from it...

I just upgraded from F37. All seem to be well. My understanding is that v37 uses kernel 6.xxx. Based on what I see in the grub2 menu, it is booting with kernel 5.18.xx. Is anything wrong? It has been rebooted a couple of times.

I do use ext4.

The last time I did it, I installed a new system onto a newer computer and then transferred /home from a backup. Another time I had an unfixable problem with the system and I reinstalled it from a backup without touching /home. I like to keep them separate.

Not to argue your good advice, but just to seek the reasons why. During my first experiments with Timeshift, I said ah ha, simply switch the includes with the excludes and you can do either or both system and/or user files. How nice. But no. You can do that, but it still includes some of the...

Is it possible to exclude all of / and just backup /home with Timeshift? Or is that beyond it's purpose? Excluding /root only excludes the /root folder, not all of /. I tried excluding /** and then including /home/**, but there are still a lot of folders and contents in / that get included in...

I avoid google as much as I can. I'll continue with Chromium as a backup as long as it works. Thanks for the great advice

It helps me to understand a bit. And, I'm not at all surprised by what you say. When I contacted their "community" the most useful piece of information they had to offer was to use Chromium. I will likely continue using Firefox as long as it continues to be provided with the distro. I...

The new profile is working. The bookmarks and new tab shortcuts have re-populated themselves from somewhere. Pleasant surprise. While re-setting stuff in "settings", I discovered that changing the default zoom results in the non-login problem with the drug company. However, changing the zoom in...

Restoring the old prefs.js file only works in that all of the old preferences are there when I open Firefox. However, Firefox cannot then connect with the internet. Something else is apparently not recognizing the old file.

f33dm3bits. The new profile did the trick. I can now log in to the drug company web site. Of course, it is easy to re-enter my configuration preferences under "settings". And, I have bookmarks backed up and I can restore those. I also had about 20 shortcuts set on a new tab page that I would...

Sorry. I should have been clearer about versions. Fedora 36 and Firefox 110.0 is correct. I will try what f33dm3bits suggests and get back to you. Thanks

I have a drug company site that I logon to frequently to purchase my meds using Firefox. I am using F36 and the Cinnamon desktop. Recently, I have been unable to logon to this website getting a message that the site is unavailable and try again. This message occurs after entering my user name...

That worked just fine. No more "not found" errors and Grub selects the last used listing. Thanks for your help and patience

First. The syntax error was due to a twitchy typing finger. The actual file name is OK. I'll do as you suggest and let you know how it works out. Thanks