Re: Latest YOU update, Firefox broken?

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

Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:01:41 -0500

On 2005-04-28, David Wright <david_c_wright@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Preston Crawford wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> The update to 1.0.3 was for security reasons, it closed some vulnerabilities
> which were classed as critical. Personally I would rather that maybe the
> themes don't work properly, but the vulnerabilities are gone...
>
> BTW, I've upgraded 8 machines to 1.0.3 (Linux 7, Windows 1) and haven't seen
> the problem with the disappearing bookmarks on any of them...
>
> Dave

Security updates are definitely needed. But if the browser stops
functioning.... I don't know. I'm not just talking about themes here.
Bookmarks basically no longer work either.

Preston

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