Re: Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs

[KS <lists04@fastmail.fm>]

Justin Hartman wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> On unstable I got a notification to upgrade my Iceweasle which I duly
> did. In doing so however all my bookmarks, prefs and other browser
> data was removed as if I had just installed Iceweasle for the first
> time.
> 
> I just don't think this is normal as my experience with apt is that it
> respects all configuration files and settings.
> 
> Any ideas?

You are probably one of the victims of:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411567

Your old profile should be still intact in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ and the
new profile is in ~/.mozilla/iceweasel/

HTH,
/KS