Firefox 151 helps you edit PDFs – and switch OSes

Summary

Software Firefox 151 helps you edit PDFs – and switch OSes Export a profile on Windows, restore it on Linux. Extensions and themes too Firefox version 151 is out of beta and trickling out to users, with handy additions, just in case you were thinking of jumping ship from Windows 11 to Linux.Mozilla has officially released Firefox 151, although automatic updates are not yet happening at the time we write this. Its profit-making subsidiary MZLA has also released Thunderbird 151, although its new-feature list has less cool new shiny. The Firefox product announcement trumpets a “fresh new look and feel” for the New Tab page. As we’ve already lightly customized ours, we didn’t see that, but you know how it is – this is the sort of thing marketing folks can understand and sound excited about. Apparently you can customize its wallpaper and add a “Recent Activity” feed, if that’s what you want. (We’ve just added a few more rows of shortcuts to recent pages.) Firefox 151 now offers more customization of the Home screen. A more useful function, especially if you don’t trust Firefox Sync and you’re thinking of changing to a new OS, is improved handling of Firefox Backup, the built-in tools for backing up and restoring your profile (or profiles, plural, for the truly hardcore). The page in the last link hasn’t changed in the last three weeks, and it still says, “Note: Firefox Backup is currently only available to users on Windows 10 and 11. This feature may be extended to other platforms in future versions of Firefox.” Well, now it has: the release notes say it works on Linux now. We’ve also seen reports that it is now on macOS too, but not on our iMac (This could be because we’ve been using Firefox Sync since the late lamented Xmarks shut down). A key addition is that a profile backed up on one OS can now be restored on a different OS, which sounds like a significant improvement to us. This includes extensions and themes.Last time around, we shared the news that the PDF editor...