Re: Firefox: loss of configuration across upgrade
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:37:26PM -0400, Max Hyre wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Firefox needs to be restarted after upgrade ... and it states so
explicitly during upgrade. It prints the following:
Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems.
- Alexander
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