Re: Latest YOU update, Firefox broken?

From: Preston Crawford (me_at_prestoncrawford.com)
Date: 04/28/05 

Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:10:01 -0500

On 2005-04-28, Bob James <bob.james@charter.net> wrote:
> Preston Crawford wrote:
>
>> Anyone elsebehavior? It's not finding my bookmarks. The style looks
>> different. It basically looks like it isn't finding my preference files.
>> The version is 1.0.3-1.1. This update came through today. Anyone know
>> what's going on?
>
> Good question. I got exactly the same behavior.
>
> As a fix, I created a new profile, and saw that the bookmark folders are
> named differently. However, I couldn't just rename the folders in the old
> profile to get a fix. I'm currently using the new profile, having imported
> the bookmarks from the old one. However, there are other problems...
>
> The biggest one revolves around being unable to use or update the themes and
> extensions. There are still some tweaks I can do, but you're right... this
> is frustrating.

Indeed. There are rumblings that it's a Firefox problem, but the bigger
issue then is why SuSE is releasing this garbage. I pay money for SuSE so
they'll test this stuff. If they're not going to bother testing it, I have
no reason to choose SuSE over Fedora, Gentoo or some other distribution.

Preston

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