On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:12:01AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 02:38:27PM -0700, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote: > > > Ken, there is another way out! alias ff='firefox -P $xyzzy' In your > > bash_profile query uname and find which system you're on, set xyzzy to be > > the appropriate for that system and make a separate profile for each > > particular system, and Bob' your Uncle. > > > Yeah, done that in the past when testing beta versions. >
Sorry to return to this, but some possible solutions: When I last used my newest system on this machine (newest in terms of package versiosn - I'm doing extended builds / tests with frozen versions to review CFLAGS etc) that wanted a new profile. So I created one, labelled for 67. Since then I've used both the CFLAG test systems (one preserved, one new) and firefox had everything I wanted to keep. Finished with one of those CFLAG systems, came back to the 'newest' system, firefox told me it needed a new profile, even when forcing that profile with firefox -P. After a bit of googling (lots of complaints from people who lsot bookmarks, passwords, etc), I found the following suggesitons: In about:profiles click on Set as default profile for the desired profile (not tried) MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=1 firefox -P (probably doesn't need the -P if you only have one profile) : that works, and supposedly only needs to be run once. There was also a suggestion to set privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config to false, but that was reported not to fix this and indeed mine was already set to false after I restored the original profile. But what a crock! 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
