Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 08:51:16
Message-Id: 55BDD9F7.2010700@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-( by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Sunday 02 Aug 2015 07:52:02 Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> On Jul 30, 2015 11:23 AM, "Alan Mackenzie" <acm@×××.de> wrote:
4 >>> Over the course of the last 24 hours,
5 >>> Firefox 38.1.0 became stable in portage, so I merged it in.
6 >>> What a mistake! All my existing configuration (incl for NoScript+),
7 >>> all my bookmarks, all record of previous visits to site -
8 >>> gone, deleted, vanished. I'm not happy about that ... [etc]
9 >> Today, did the same emerge without any problem :
10 >> my bookmarks remain the same, as does my start-up ("home") site.
11 >> From the discussion, it appears that your difficulties
12 >> resulted from your use of a developer version of FF,
13 >> but how you come to be using it is not clear.
14 > USE="bindist" emerges the Aurora as opposed to Firefox ESR and this is what is
15 > causing the problem. You evidently do not have bindist set for FF and
16 > therefore have not experienced this profile related problem.
17 >
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20 I have bindist disabled here and ran into trouble with one of my
21 profiles. The other profiles worked just fine. I ended up deleting the
22 profile and creating it fresh. Luckily it wasn't one of my more
23 important profiles with a lot of bookmarks or anything.
24
25 Dale
26
27 :-) :-)