firefox in f30

[François Patte]

Bonjour,

I have just upgraded to f30 from f29.

As I wanted to use firefox, I had a warning: "create a new profile".....

Why I can't use my previous profile?

I tried to create a new profile and: all my bookmarks, all my addons all
my previous config have disappeared.

How can I recover? How can use my old config, bookmarks etc.

Thank you.

[Ed Greshko]

On 8/31/19 9:08 PM, François Patte wrote:
> I have just upgraded to f30 from f29.
>
> As I wanted to use firefox, I had a warning: "create a new profile".....
>
> Why I can't use my previous profile?
>
> I tried to create a new profile and: all my bookmarks, all my addons all
> my previous config have disappeared.
>
> How can I recover? How can use my old config, bookmarks etc.

Your profiles are located at ~/.mozilla/firefox as a directory.  The default profile would be named something like 56npld66.default and the profiles.ini should hold the needed information to start FF using that information.

For example my profile.ini contains

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=56npld66.default
Default=1

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

[Install11457493C5A56847]
Default=56npld66.default

And, you can always start FF with a profile like this....

firefox --profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/whatever_directory

[François Patte]

Le 31/08/2019 à 15:26, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> On 8/31/19 9:08 PM, François Patte wrote:
> > I have just upgraded to f30 from f29.
> >
> > As I wanted to use firefox, I had a warning: "create a new
> > profile".....
> >
> > Why I can't use my previous profile?
> >
> > I tried to create a new profile and: all my bookmarks, all my
> > addons all my previous config have disappeared.
> >
> > How can I recover? How can use my old config, bookmarks etc.
>
> Your profiles are located at ~/.mozilla/firefox as a directory.  The
> default profile would be named something like 56npld66.default and
> the profiles.ini should hold the needed information to start FF using
> that information.
>
> For example my profile.ini contains
>
> [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=56npld66.default Default=1
>
> [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 Version=2
>
> [Install11457493C5A56847] Default=56npld66.default
>
> And, you can always start FF with a profile like this....
>
> firefox --profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/whatever_directory

Thank you for your answer. I tried to modify the files profiles.ini and
installs.ini to have my "old" profile but this did not work: when I call
firefox I have a warning pretending that I am using a too old version of
firefox (??? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) which could destroy my configs and
bookmarks....

Then I have no other choice: or I create a new profile, or I quit....

So, I downgraded from version 68 (from my new f30 install), to the
previous one (66). and firefox works like this. Doing updates, I will
exclude firefox untill this strange behaviour disappears.

Who can understand?

Thank you.

[stan]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:08:22 +0200
François Patte  wrote:
> I have just upgraded to f30 from f29.
>
> As I wanted to use firefox, I had a warning: "create a new
> profile".....
>
> Why I can't use my previous profile?
>
> I tried to create a new profile and: all my bookmarks, all my addons
> all my previous config have disappeared.
>
> How can I recover? How can use my old config, bookmarks etc.

Ed's suggestion will work, but you can also use
firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager
to bring up a dialog in order to select the profile you want to use.
This enables having different profiles for different uses.  A little
extra security if you want to use it.

[François Patte]

Le 31/08/2019 à 17:30, stan via users a écrit :
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:08:22 +0200
> François Patte  wrote:
> > I have just upgraded to f30 from f29.
> >
> > As I wanted to use firefox, I had a warning: "create a new
> > profile".....
> >
> > Why I can't use my previous profile?
> >
> > I tried to create a new profile and: all my bookmarks, all my addons
> > all my previous config have disappeared.
> >
> > How can I recover? How can use my old config, bookmarks etc.
>
> Ed's suggestion will work, but you can also use
> firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager
> to bring up a dialog in order to select the profile you want to use.
> This enables having different profiles for different uses.  A little
> extra security if you want to use it.

No, I don't want to use it, I just want to use one profile and not to
have to reconfigure everything because a new version of firefox has
come.... It seems to be the case for version 68, because when
downgrading to version 66 I could have firefox working normaly without
any pain....

[Antonio M]

just an idea: copy your full folder ./mozilla somewhere (on a USB stick)
then upgrade Firefox, don't start Firefox, then copy from the USB stick to
your system and restart Firefox
Let me know
Antonio Montagnani

Linux Fedora 30 Workstation
da/from Gmail

Il giorno sab 31 ago 2019 alle ore 17:41 François Patte <
[e-mail]> ha scritto:
> Le 31/08/2019 à 17:30, stan via users a écrit :
> > On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:08:22 +0200
> > François Patte  wrote:
> > > I have just upgraded to f30 from f29.
> > >
> > > As I wanted to use firefox, I had a warning: "create a new
> > > profile".....
> > >
> > > Why I can't use my previous profile?
> > >
> > > I tried to create a new profile and: all my bookmarks, all my addons
> > > all my previous config have disappeared.
> > >
> > > How can I recover? How can use my old config, bookmarks etc.
> >
> > Ed's suggestion will work, but you can also use
> > firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager
> > to bring up a dialog in order to select the profile you want to use.
> > This enables having different profiles for different uses.  A little
> > extra security if you want to use it.
>
> No, I don't want to use it, I just want to use one profile and not to
> have to reconfigure everything because a new version of firefox has
> come.... It seems to be the case for version 68, because when
> downgrading to version 66 I could have firefox working normaly without
> any pain....
>
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[stan]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:40:12 +0200
François Patte  wrote:
> No, I don't want to use it, I just want to use one profile and not to
> have to reconfigure everything because a new version of firefox has
> come.... It seems to be the case for version 68, because when
> downgrading to version 66 I could have firefox working normaly without
> any pain....

If you use the manager, you can select the profile you want.  I think
the one you want is the "default" profile.  You can delete all the
other profiles, and then firefox should start using the only profile
left.  I haven't done that, so that is just my supposition.  Be sure
that you know the profile you want before you start deleting anything.