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. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
