On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 06:23:03PM +0000, 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.
That's a feature ;). Occasional forced cleaning. This happened when I upgraded (I'm on unstable), but I don't have bookmarks nor saved passwords, and my custom config takes ~10 seconds to set up clicking through the menu, so I didn't really care. Backups are good. Putting all of the config and bookmarks in version control would be even better, except Firefox uses a pretty awesome combination of sqlite, JSON, JavaScript, and text for storing configuration and bookmarks, so of course that would be a nightmare. > 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. More "features". > 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? The only related thing I can find is a bug where starting the Profile Manager deletes all the profiles, or something close to that. Alec
