On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 07:49:27PM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > Now that firefox-67.0 is about to be released (currently on 2nd > candidate build), I gave it a whirl in /opt. As I expected, starting > it produced a dialog which said it uses a new profile and "does not > share bookmarks, passwords, and user preferences with other > installations of Firefox on this computer". > > So, I recommend that people make a note of this information, and any > currently open tabs which they would like to return to but have not > bookmarked, *before* building firefox-67.0. > > On systems with relatively small amounts of free memory (less than > 2MB per-core for 4 cores, perhaps not quite so much for subsequent > cores), closing the current version and anything else which is > similarly large BEFORE the build will help. > Seems to be a red herring : when I installed candidate builds on desktops where I had previously run builds from the build directory, on one occasion the running firefox told me (when I changed to a new tab) something like "we have updated in the background, firefox needs to be restarted" - clicking on the restart button it just died, but then when I started it from the menu all the tabs were restored.
I've just updated my laptop (killed the running firefox before updating, to free memory) and when I restarted FF it all came back. Update will hopefully be in the book in the next 24 hours (official release time is probably Wednesday in some mercan TZ, no release notes until then). "* this for a game of soldiers" ĸen -- Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four" [...] The cataclysmic power chord that followed was the creation of time and space and matter and it does Not Fade Away. - wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Music_With_Rocks_In -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
