Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message CeDeROM wrote: >On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette > wrote: >> Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of >> one's personal settings are stored in a directory having a name which >> has the following general form: >> ~/.mozilla/firef

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 13:13 +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Is there a file .mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini? If so it should list > which profile to use. Just change it to the one you want and it > should > just work. > > I'm using an older version so don't know how the latest works Good point C

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 12/02/2013 21:38, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1). But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and wit

OT: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 11:39 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > Agree, it contains more information than the second one which is > picture-flash based and I cannot see ~80% of its content :-) And the biggest evil is, that those web pages hide important things and they don't add a site map. I can't find the

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-13 Thread CeDeROM
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> A blind Linux user's homepage: http://juliencoder.de/ >> The homepage of my provider: http://www.o2online.de/ >> What site is more pleasant ;)? > The first one. Agree, it contains more information than the second one which is picture-flash

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:52:34 +0100 On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 00:47 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The best websites are made by people using brai

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 00:16 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > Even though I don't like "Flash" especially because it > has become what animated GIFs have been used for in the > past - replacement for HTML, nagging, stealing focus, > aggressive advertising with sound and so on - it perfectly > works with O

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:40:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't like the new style of Opera and the > style of Chromium. I prefer classic menus. Luckily you can change that in Opera and give it the "traditional" style. Still Opera suffers from ongoing "disimprovement" (e. g. reduction of functio

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 23:26 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Firefox is my preferred browser, but it has some disadvantages compared > > to other browsers. > > Give a try to Chromium :-) I have been using Opera for long time > because it was fast

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread CeDeROM
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Firefox is my preferred browser, but it has some disadvantages compared > to other browsers. Give a try to Chromium :-) I have been using Opera for long time because it was fast and small. Not that long ago I have switched to Chromium and th

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 23:00 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > Hey Ronald, are you sure there is no corruption on the disk? Have you > preformatted your new drive? I had disks that lost data if used with > no pre-format stage. Have you tried forcing fsck? Sometimes when my > machine crash there is a silent co

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:52 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH > > I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for > > Arch Linux I used two profiles, o

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread CeDeROM
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of > one's personal settings are stored in a directory having a name which > has the following general form: > ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default Hey Ronald, are

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH > I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for > Arch Linux I used two profiles, one shared with another Linux and after > a while I couldn't use

Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for Arch Linux I used two profiles, one shared with another Linux and after a while I couldn't use the shared profiles anymore, but the ProfileManger still start

Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)

2013-02-12 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1). But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and with a complete set of freshly rebuilt ports, includi