Firefox: loss of configuration across upgrade

[Max Hyre <max@hyre.net>]

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   Gentlefolk:

   I'm following unstable, using Synaptic pretty much daily
to reload the package files and perform all upgrades.
Firefox was recently upgraded (the last week or 10 days) to
1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-1, but I had an instance running from
before then until today.

   Today I tried to use https: protocol (buying online) and
was told, roughly, ``Can't do that---SSL isn't available''.
A couple of different sites acted the same.  Finally
realizing an upgrade might have something to do with it, I
killed my instance and brought up another one.  That one had
lost all my configuration, cookies, &c.

   Poking around showed ~/.mozilla/firefox had two
directories:  <garbage1>.default/ and <garbage2>.default/;
the first had my setup.  After some futzing around, I
renamed <garbage1> to <garbage2> and everything came up
fine.

   Eventually I figured that profiles.ini had the entry
``Path=<garbage2>.default'', and I could probably have
edited that to have it DTRT.

   My question:  What do I do from here?
    o File a bug (there's currently none for this
      situation)?
    o Realize this is one of the costs of rapid updates, and
      restart all apps after every upgrade (a pain)?  If so,
      must I reboot as well (more pain)?
    o Chalk it up to the phase of the moon and ignore it?

   In my latest update (minutes ago), I notice changes to
such interesting packages as thunderbird, xbase-clients and
libpam, suggesting, respectively, restarting thunderbird,
logging out and back in to my desktop, and rebooting.

   Thanks for any thoughts on the subject.


                Best wishes,

                        Max Hyre


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