It looks like the only way to get the extension data out of the old Firefox profiles is to query some sqlite databases that are located in `<profile_dir>/storage/default`. I found one of the important extension directories, but querying the database just returns gibberish.
For anyone else dealing with the problem, I'm wondering if it might be solvable by booting Ubuntu 18.04 from a thumb drive, installing the nightly Firefox version in it, loading the profiles there, exporting any needed data via the extension settings, and then importing it back into the stable version after booting from the hard drive again. I'll try it tomorrow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850529 Title: Crash after update to 71.0~b5+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After update from: 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 to 71.0~b5+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 app is not starting. I got constantly message that I can Refresh Firefox (crash) or Start in safe mode (also crash). Tech details: Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Release: 16.04 package name: 71.0~b5+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Crash log details: AdapterDeviceID: 0x1616 AdapterDriverVendor: mesa/i965 AdapterDriverVersion: 18.0.5.0 AdapterVendorID: 0x8086 BuildID: 20191028161640 ContentSandboxCapabilities: 119 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 4 CrashTime: 1572373123 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 FramePoisonBase: 9223372036600930304 FramePoisonSize: 4096 InstallTime: 1572364967 IsWayland: 0 IsWaylandDRM: 0 MozCrashReason: MOZ_RELEASE_ASSERT(len.isValid()) (Substring tuple length is invalid) Notes: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTSFP(D00-L1000-W00000000-T000) WR? WR- OMTP? OMTP- ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox ReleaseChannel: beta SafeMode: 1 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 816 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1572373025 TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}","applicationName":"Firefox","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20191028161640","version":"71.0","vendor":"Mozilla","displayVersion":"71.0b5","platformVersion":"71.0","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-gcc3","updaterAvailable":false},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":15965,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"count":4,"cores":2,"vendor":"GenuineIntel","family":6,"model":61,"stepping":4,"l2cacheKB":256,"l3cacheKB":3072,"speedMHz":2700,"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2","hasAVX","hasAVX2","hasAES"]},"os":{"name":"Linux","version":"4.15.0-66-generic","locale":"en-US"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","Headless":false,"adapters":[{"description":"Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2) ","vendorID":"0x8086","deviceID":"0x1616","subsysID":null,"RAM":3072,"driver":null,"driverVendor":"mesa/i965","driverVersion":"18.0.5.0","driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[{"screenWidth":1366,"screenHeight":768}],"features":{"compositor":"none","gpuProcess":{"status":"blocked"},"wrQualified":{"status":"blocked-release-channel-intel"},"webrender":{"status":"unavailable-in-safe-mode"}}},"appleModelId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":true,"e10sMultiProcesses":8,"telemetryEnabled":true,"locale":"en-US","intl":{},"update":{"channel":"beta","enabled":true,"autoDownload":false},"userPrefs":{"app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled":false,"browser.cache.disk.capacity":1048576,"browser.newtabpage.enabled":false,"browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser":true,"browser.search.region":"US","browser.search.suggest.enabled":false,"browser.search.widget.inNavBar":false,"browser.startup.homepage":"<user-set>","browser.startup.page":3,"browser.urlbar.suggest.searches":false,"devtools.chrome.enabled":false,"devtools.debugger.remote-enabled":false,"extensions.blocklist.url":"https://blocklists.settings.services.mozilla.com/v1/blocklist/3/%20/%20/","extensions.formautofill.addresses.enabled":false,"extensions.formautofill.creditCards.enabled":false,"privacy.donottrackheader.enabled":true},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":4},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null},"profile":{}} ThreadIdNameMapping: 7556:"Gecko_IOThread",7557:"JS Watchdog",7558:"JS Helper",7559:"JS Helper",7560:"JS Helper",7561:"JS Helper",7562:"Timer",7563:"Netlink Monitor",7564:"Socket Thread",7568:"Cache2 I/O",7569:"Cookie",7570:"StreamTrans #1",7571:"GMPThread",7572:"Worker Launcher",7573:"SoftwareVsyncThread",7574:"Compositor",7575:"ImgDecoder #1",7576:"ImageIO",7580:"ImageBridgeChild",7581:"IPDL Background",7582:"DOM Worker",7584:"QuotaManager IO",7587:"StyleThread#0",7589:"StyleThread#2",7588:"StyleThread#1",7593:"DOM Worker",7630:"DataStorage",7631:"DNS Resolver #1",7632:"DNS Resolver #2",7633:"StreamTrans #7",7646:"IndexedDB #2",7647:"StreamTrans #8",7648:"StreamTrans #9",7649:"StreamTrans #10", Throttleable: 1 UptimeTS: 98.30915265 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 71.0 useragent_locale: en-US To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1850529/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
