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