On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> The problem remains trying to figure out which setting it is. Later >> today I will rename the new .mozilla folder that it created just >> now, then poke around in the old one to see if I get any clues. The >> answer is in there somewhere. >Copy one file or subdirectory at a time from your backup ~/.mozilla to >the new one. Then close and re-open firefox. When it fails to load >pages you know where to look for the reason. This turned out to be harder than it sounded. There are hundreds of folders in ~/.mozilla, and opening and closing Firefox over and over became too tedious, so eventually I gave up. And I couldn't find anything that looked like it had anything to do with proxies. Eventually I decided just to create a new ~/.mozilla folder. Actually, there already was one - created automatically when I first launched Firefox after renaming the old folder. It took me over an hour, but I have all my crucial stuff in the new Firefox - bookmarks, Zotero citations database, extensions, and at least some of the usernames and passwords for places that need them. I'll add the others over time. I already migrated most of them to Chromium, so now I'll copy them back. Unfortunately, my solution resulted in never finding the cause of the problem. But there is a silver lining - the new Firefox seems to run quite a bit faster. It also motivated me to do some serious house-cleaning in my bookmarks list, which is a mess. Many thanks to all who helped with suggestions! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
