filesystem damage
I backed up my system on Saturday (yesterday), and pulled a stupid.
I'll explain.
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
with the backup drive, boot, and be on my merry way. After the backup
has completed, I resume and it's right where I left off.
So. This time, while the backup was in process, I mounted /home
read-only to check something out. Apparently that's not good enough to
keep the filesystem intact, because at the end when I resumed, several
things in $HOME didn't work right. E.G., some widgets in the panel were
misconfigured, T-bird had lost its configuration, and Firefox plugins
didn't work. I fixed the panel widgets, T-bird appears to be *mostly*
fixed (we'll see if this gets sent as text), but the Firefox plugins are
still a mess. The Noscript icon shows up in the row with the hamburger
menu, but doesn't show up in Tools → Addons & Themes. Adblocker for
Youtube, I'm not sure it's doing anything because I still see ads before
a video and I didn't before. So what can I do to fix this, while still
keeping my history, cookies, tabs, etc?
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