On Jul 30, 2015 11:23 AM, "Alan Mackenzie" <a...@muc.de> 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. > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). >
Not an answer to your question, but Google - chrome is a much better browser imo, and installs itself very quickly and tidily with portage.
