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Am Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:23:03 +0000 |
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schrieb Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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Hello, |
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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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I'm sorry. All I can say is that I have never had anything like that happen |
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to me, and I've been using the ~amd64 versions for a while now (so I'm on 39.0 |
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at the moment). |
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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, .... |
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Why do you delete cookies manually in the first place? Do none of the many |
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cookie manager addons available for Firefox suite your needs? I use |
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"Self-Destructing Cookies" myself, which by default deletes a website's cookies |
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as soon as the tab is closed (the other two options are "when Firefox closes" |
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and "never"). (For so-called "Super-Cookies" there's also "BetterPrivacy".) |
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> 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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Does the font configuration not suffice? I see a "minimum font size" setting |
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there. Maybe it won't throw everything else out of whack. |
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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 would assume that it is a bug and thus not intentional. |
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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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As always, use whatever suits you. Personally, I'm sticking with Firefox for a |
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variety of reasons, one of them being that Mozilla is one of the few web |
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technology organisations that actually seems to care about user privacy. |
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*Without* resorting to sticking with -- let alone reverting to -- stone age |
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technologies. |
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> Has my old config/cookies/... actually been physically destroyed, or is |
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> it just being disregarded by 38.1.0? Looking at my ~/.mozilla/firefox |
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> doesn't give me much hope. |
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If you don't have backups, I'm sorry. Data loss is never fun. |
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> Yours, in anger. |
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HTH |
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-- |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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