Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Aug 2015 07:52:02 Philip Webb wrote:
>> On Jul 30, 2015 11:23 AM, "Alan Mackenzie" <a...@muc.de> wrote:
>>> Over the course of the last 24 hours,
>>> Firefox 38.1.0 became stable in portage, so I merged it in.
>>> What a mistake! All my existing configuration (incl for NoScript+),
>>> all my bookmarks, all record of previous visits to site -
>>> gone, deleted, vanished. I'm not happy about that ... [etc]
>> Today, did the same emerge without any problem :
>> my bookmarks remain the same, as does my start-up ("home") site.
>> From the discussion, it appears that your difficulties
>> resulted from your use of a developer version of FF,
>> but how you come to be using it is not clear.
> USE="bindist" emerges the Aurora as opposed to Firefox ESR and this is what
> is
> causing the problem. You evidently do not have bindist set for FF and
> therefore have not experienced this profile related problem.
>
I have bindist disabled here and ran into trouble with one of my
profiles. The other profiles worked just fine. I ended up deleting the
profile and creating it fresh. Luckily it wasn't one of my more
important profiles with a lot of bookmarks or anything.
Dale
:-) :-)
