Roman Bysh composed on 2018-04-17 19:50 (UTC-0400):
Michal Kubecek wrote:
What I found really annoying was that once I accidentally ran Firefox 59 on 15.0, it messed up my bookmarks and history in a way version 52 wasn't able to recover from. I had to delete the file manually and let version 52 restore bookmarks from a backup. History was lost.
Michal Kubeček
You have to use a new profile for Firefox 57+ if you've been using the same profile for a long time.
News to me. I've not created a new FF profile in many years. I have a dozen FF profiles on this machine alone. What's necessary is what Michal observed: once an older profile is _silently_ migrated to latest by opening latest, there is no using that profile with an older version, other than via restore from backup. Whether "latest" means 56 or 57 or 58 of 59 I've not been paying attention, as whatever the dumbed-down-UI, feature-short, Chrome copycat, "lastest" is gets little use here.
It's too bad that Mozilla has not been listening to the countless developers that have created so many extensions and entire themes.
I'm sticking with the Firefox 52 ESR for as long as possible.
I'm sure just about everyone who knows what has happened or will happen to their favorite extensions in Quantum feels the same way. Too many changes, including feature loss, coming way too fast in FF for several years now. I "switched" from Mozilla Suite to SeaMonkey as primary browser many moons ago, which is to say FF has never been good enough to be my primary browser. FF in its oldest supportable version, or older, are mere supplements here. "Latest" only gets used when the reason for using it is specifically about something it does or doesn't do, typically WRT some particular web site. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org