On 26/08/17 20:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 26.08.2017 um 09:31 schrieb Dave Howorth:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:51:43 -0400 James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
On 08/25/2017 10:43 PM, Jim Flanagan wrote:
I think updates change this behavior back to default. I does when you turn of do not track, updates change it back to do track.
I guess I'll find out.
Gah, thanks for the heads up, Jim. You're right, both of those are back to defaults. I wonder if I configured anything else?
Another set of devs who need to take a hippocratic oath. What part about user set configuration makes it acceptable for devs to undo it at random?
Is it FF devs or openSUSE update devs that are the source of this problem?
Ah, this is why firefox behaves different after updates! Too bad. Especially since I have (almost) no idea what I tweaked in about:config over time and second, because I use a lot of different profiles to avoid pages following me,
By "pages following me" do you mean that you are trying to avoid being tracked as you move around the web? If so then changing profiles does nothing for you in this regard because you are tracked on the HEADER which your browser sends out in response to the request from the site you are visiting. If you want to know more, and also check how secure your system is, then go to: https://www.grc.com/default.htm (Gibson Research Corporation) and do the ShieldsUp! test -- in particular do the All Service Ports test and the Browser Headers test. Also, read some of the comments on that site about the WWW as well as try out some of the other tests if you think they may apply to your system. I recently installed a new modem/router and doing the ShiledsUp! test revealed that the modem/router allowed my ISP to 'ping' me at any time which meant that I was 'visible' to any scans by hackers. Disabling this 'ping' made me 'invisible'.
that means lot of work after each update, besides of the need to keep a list of changes somewhere.
But firefox is not the only one. After each upgrade (like 42.2 to 42.3) backgrounds, icons, login-screen, cursor shape, desktop settings etc. are set to some default, ignoring my personal settings, even used icon-sets and background-images must be downloaded again explicitely. One of the reasons why I only upgrade every second release, it's just too much adjusting work.
There is a very simple solution to having to redo your settings for both Firefox and Thunderbird: create a directory -- preferably on a second hard drive, as I have -- and put .mozilla and .thunderbird into that directory and Symlink them to your Home directory. For example, I have a second drive where I created a directory called /Seconddrive/My2ndhome and in the real /home/<user> directory I have .mozilla and .thunderbird symlinked to /Seconddrive/My2ndhome/<.mozilla> and <.thunderbird>. This way when I install a new version of openSUSE, which is always done on the first HD, I don't lose any of the settings which are sitting safely on the 2nd HD. Even if you don't have a second HD you can always create a separate partition on an HD where you store your .mozilla and .thunderbird and symlink to these from /home/<user>. BC -- You are NOT entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your INFORMED opinion. Nobody is entitled to be ignorant. Harlan Ellison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org