On Thursday 03 Dec 2015 18:01:22 walt wrote: > My trouble started with my update from firefox-39 to firefox-40 back > in August 2015. At first the update seemed absolutely benign and I > noticed nothing bad happening. > > Slowly but surely firefox has been driving me crazy by doing little > things that are merely annoying. Today firefox did something so > outrageous that finally I had to stop and fix the problem. > > The big change AFAICT was the switch from sqlite to json for storing > data in your ~/.mozilla directory. Today I noticed that dozens of > files in my ~/.mozilla directory had identical date and time stamps > from back in August, all apparently written by firefox-39. > > The problem is that firefox-42 still reads *some* of those old files for > backward compatibility, but apparently not all of them. > > Anyway, one obvious thing to do is start with a fresh ~/.mozilla > directory when you use firefox-42. Or at least make a complete copy > of your existing ~/.mozilla so you can start over when you have > trouble. > > I recommend that you *not* use the profile editor from firefox-42 to > edit any old firefox profiles you may have. You run the risk of > damaging or deleting your old profiles by doing this. This is *not* > equivalent to backing up your ~/.mozilla directory. Others have > already learned the hard way, including moi.
Thanks for the heads up walt, I just made another back up in preparation. Thankfully, I'm still on stable 38.4.0. -- Regards, Mick
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