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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