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Where does Firefox save images, by default?

Firefox has the prominent configurable option where to save files when I select the "Save Link As" action. However, this does not seem to apply to images I want to download by right-clicking ...
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How to force to restart firefox in a clean way?

Many times when I upgrade the system under Linux, firefox pops up a window suggesting to restart the program in order to make effective all the changes. When I ignore that windows because of an ...
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Pentadactyl - Setting the editor conditional on the operating system

I frequently work on three operating systems (Windows 7, OSX, and Linux) and I keep one .pentadactylrc under version control. Up until recently my settings have been portable enough to work on all ...
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Can setrlimit be used to put limitations on firefox?

I noticed that firefox sometimes uses a lot of memory. Can something like setrlimit be used to control it? I tried to use it on the command line, but it didn't work.
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Why Firefox on Linux looks different than Windows/Mac?

Beyond each platform toolkit of course. How come Firefox UI looks, mmhh well, not that good on Linux, it's pretty decent in Windows and it definitely rocks on OSX? Is it a single product recompiled ...
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