Re: Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:07:31 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 02/20/07 02:08, KS wrote:
> > 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/
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> So will this solve it?
>
> $ mv ~/.mozilla/iceweasel ~/.mozilla/iceweasel.hold
> $ mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/iceweasel
That worked for me when I ran into this bug yesterday. (run-of-the-mill
i686 Sid box with some experimental packages thrown in the mix.)
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Regards,
Florian
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