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 -- GPG messages preferred. | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Alexander Sack | : :' : The universal [EMAIL PROTECTED] | `. `' Operating System http://www.asoftsite.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
