On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 03:04:10AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 07:50:55PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > > Now that firefox-67.0 is about to be released (currently on 2nd > > candidate build), I gave it a whirl in /opt. As I expected, starting > > it produced a dialog which said it uses a new profile and "does not > > share bookmarks, passwords, and user preferences with other > > installations of Firefox on this computer". > > > > So, I recommend that people make a note of this information, and any > > currently open tabs which they would like to return to but have not > > bookmarked, *before* building firefox-67.0. > > > > On systems with relatively small amounts of free memory (less than > > 2MB per-core for 4 cores, perhaps not quite so much for subsequent > > cores), closing the current version and anything else which is > > similarly large BEFORE the build will help. > > > Seems to be a red herring : when I installed candidate builds on > desktops where I had previously run builds from the build directory, > on one occasion the running firefox told me (when I changed to a new > tab) something like "we have updated in the background, firefox > needs to be restarted" - clicking on the restart button it just > died, but then when I started it from the menu all the tabs were > restored. > > I've just updated my laptop (killed the running firefox before > updating, to free memory) and when I restarted FF it all came back. > > Update will hopefully be in the book in the next 24 hours (official > release time is probably Wednesday in some mercan TZ, no release > notes until then). > And then it bit me. On my development systems, which I also use as my normal desktops, I've got multiple LFS systems, with shared /home. And I update all those I claim to keep supported. On my main machine I'd done the 8.4 and the newer svn systems, and also the oldest (8.1). Then I went back to 8.2 and updated that - it wanted a new profile. Move on, and all the recent systems too told me they wanted to use a newer profile. Which of course comes up with default settings. In one system I tried restoring ~/.mozilla from a backup, which brought me back my settings and tabs, but then I moved on to a newer system to use it, and again it wanted a new profile.
I've now set one up with the settings and extensions I wanted, checked it on another recent system (ok) and now I've added the sites I wanted to keep. But what a crock of the proverbial! ĸen -- Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four" [...] The cataclysmic power chord that followed was the creation of time and space and matter and it does Not Fade Away. - wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Music_With_Rocks_In -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
