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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 06:23:03PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> Over the course of the last 24 hours, Firefox 38.1.0 became stable in |
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> portage, so I merged it in. |
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> What a mistake! |
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> All my existing configuration (including for NoScript+), all my |
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> bookmarks, all record of previous visits to site - gone, deleted, |
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> vanished. I'm not happy about that. |
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That's a feature ;). Occasional forced cleaning. This happened when I |
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upgraded (I'm on unstable), but I don't have bookmarks nor saved |
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passwords, and my custom config takes ~10 seconds to set up clicking |
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through the menu, so I didn't really care. |
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Backups are good. Putting all of the config and bookmarks in version |
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control would be even better, except Firefox uses a pretty awesome |
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combination of sqlite, JSON, JavaScript, and text for storing |
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configuration and bookmarks, so of course that would be a nightmare. |
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> The usability of the program has gone down, down, down. Not a lot seems |
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> to work properly, anymore. For example, it used to be that you could |
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> mark a selection of "your" cookies then delete them in one operation. |
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> Now you have to mark a single cookie and delete it, mark the next cookie |
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> and delete it, .... Even the screen area where the current URL is |
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> displayed is now displayed in low-contrast miniscule type, so that I can |
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> barely read it. |
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More "features". |
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> What on earth are the upstream developers thinking about? Destroying |
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> somebody's configuration is not a nice thing to do. |
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> I've a feeling that all this must have been discussed here quite |
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> recently, so apologies if I'm dredging up old stuff. Still, a |
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> recommendation as to how I might proceed would be welcome. Should I go |
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> back to 31.8.0 and stay there, or would I be better going with some fork |
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> of firefox? |
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The only related thing I can find is a bug where starting the Profile |
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Manager deletes all the profiles, or something close to that. |
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Alec |
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