Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

[Mick]

On Thursday 30 Jul 2015 19:23:03 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
>
> Over the course of the last 24 hours, Firefox 38.1.0 became stable in
> portage, so I merged it in.
>
> What a mistake!
>
> All my existing configuration (including for NoScript+), all my
> bookmarks, all record of previous visits to site - gone, deleted,
> vanished.  I'm not happy about that.
>
> The usability of the program has gone down, down, down.  Not a lot seems
> to work properly, anymore.  For example, it used to be that you could
> mark a selection of "your" cookies then delete them in one operation.
> Now you have to mark a single cookie and delete it, mark the next cookie
> and delete it, ....  Even the screen area where the current URL is
> displayed is now displayed in low-contrast miniscule type, so that I can
> barely read it.
>
> What on earth are the upstream developers thinking about?  Destroying
> somebody's configuration is not a nice thing to do.
>
> I've a feeling that all this must have been discussed here quite
> recently, so apologies if I'm dredging up old stuff.  Still, a
> recommendation as to how I might proceed would be welcome.  Should I go
> back to 31.8.0 and stay there, or would I be better going with some fork
> of firefox?
>
> Has my old config/cookies/... actually been physically destroyed, or is
> it just being disregarded by 38.1.0?  Looking at my ~/.mozilla/firefox
> doesn't give me much hope.
>
> Yours, in anger.

I posted a message a week ago about this problem.  On a no-multilib 64bit 
machine FF fails to compile.

 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/284455

On two other 64bit and a 32bit machines it builds with no problems and nothing 
is deleted, or corrupted.

Someone else has already posted about losing their FF profile and settings.  
This however has not happened here.

Sorry I can't shed more light on this problem.

-- 
Regards,
Mick