For what it's worth, my kids encountered this on two desktops today,
moving from 16.04 to 18.04. As this would be a major issue for non-
technical folk I'd urge getting the fix out the door sooner rather than
later - especially on 18.04, to preserve LTS as being a safe choice.
The workaround I used here, prior to being shown this bug, was to let
Firefox make a new profile and to follow these instructions to copy over
all the critical files:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-
an-old-profile
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830096
Title:
Firefox 67 in Ubuntu 18.10 thinks it's an older version
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
New
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
Today I installed the Firefox 67 update on Ubuntu 18.04, then updated
to Ubuntu 18.10. After this, launching Firefox gave me a "Using an
older version of Firefox" message with only two options: create a new
profile or quit.
Apparently the Firefox 67 build for 18.10 thinks it's an older version
than the Firefox 67 build for 18.04.
For now I worked around the issue by manually installing the Firefox
67 build for Ubuntu 18.04, which did load the existing user profile
correctly.
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