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On Thursday 30 Jul 2015 19:59:25 you wrote: |
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> On Thursday 30 Jul 2015 19:23:03 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hello, Gentoo. |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > What a mistake! |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > Yours, in anger. |
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[snip ...] |
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> Someone else has already posted about losing their FF profile and settings. |
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> This however has not happened here. |
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> |
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> Sorry I can't shed more light on this problem. |
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Until it happened here too ... :-( |
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So, I find myself with one box having the problem of ALWAYS wanting to start |
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up with some 'dev-edition-default' profile, which has a dark bacground theme |
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and is void of previous user settings. The old profile with the user's |
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bookmarks, extensions, etc. is called 'default'. Firefox starts with the |
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Profile Manager pop-up giving me a choice which profile to use, but selecting |
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the 'default' profile and asking it not to ask again at start up does not work |
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as expected. The 'default' profile selection does not stick. Deleting the |
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new 'dev-edition-default' profile causes it to be recreated afresh at the next |
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start up. |
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Anyway, the box without this problem does not have USE="bindist" set, while |
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the PC with the above problem does. I just removed bindist from make.conf |
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(not sure why it was there) and I rebuilt Firefox. The stuck dev-edition- |
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fault profile problem is gone! :-) |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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