From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A731383D9 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E97B8E0872; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-f169.google.com (mail-yk0-f169.google.com [209.85.160.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D00CAE0806 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:20:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ykfw194 with SMTP id w194so72308379ykf.0 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:20:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4+jdeJsD38T5tKLBnww+GYm206Cq6uj5r9l3SSwxA6s=; b=wlkyTZxgaOhk8yjDQ/KevrE7sUXaw7ZQ83qcgMhijHsiVArYRI8+TNUP387YU5s2/C I8a9XwQ6dOC3HML/fhnlJNFj6+cUD2pSiEXlV4SJrb7orv8budSKnw4W5ikZcUBZ2nf4 kH6xqgwx3WxsxDNKD6qmh+wRvGncKKZn4f8Z7yQk/GHpph675wK+C4UWa85cV/YTpiPW 6WEzH69IAUZ8jm9On3H1xRPfzCkJu12ZEiyKqtnk5FvKWbf14qeyl5Ga1uZgeOMiwhR+ 97p7z+GjrMGduiVAGZtLKm7CPw+BHFvHiafIk1szEFmsxxpUnYAw6Ex7GfUnV7yAQ5jN cmuw== X-Received: by 10.170.40.20 with SMTP id 20mr3276185yki.47.1437438044114; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-109-243.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.109.243]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g63sm21557423ywd.50.2015.07.20.17.20.42 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55AD9059.2050606@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:20:41 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function References: <20150720161844.1db1d485@a6> In-Reply-To: <20150720161844.1db1d485@a6> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6cfb51d9-1638-4821-82b1-f75539f98fc0 X-Archives-Hash: 296bd6f22adb636ab3e1ead9ed37a79e walt wrote: > I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, but= > I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of bookmarks= > and saved passwords. > > For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the -ProfileManager > flag (don't do this, it's broken!) and created a fresh firefox profile > with the name "temp" as I've been doing for years. > > I ran the "temp" profile while doing my testing, quit firefox and then > re-invoked firefox with the -ProfileManager flag and used it to delete > the "temp" profile because I didn't need it any more. > > Unfortunately, deleting "temp" also deleted the "default" profile I've > been using for years, which had all of my bookmarks and saved passwords= > and maybe other stuff I haven't even thought about yet. > > I'm copying an old firefox profile from another machine that's four > years out of date. Maybe I can rescue an ort here or there. > > What a fscking disaster. > > Lesson learned: if you need to start firefox with a fresh profile, > just move your ~/.mozilla directory out of the way and let firefox > create a new one from scratch. > > > > This wouldn't help with some of the things you lost but it will with your passwords at least. For passwords, this will help and you can use it somewhere else as well since it is portable, sort of. https://lastpass.com/ I use that because I use Seamonkey, Firefox and other browsers. Also, if I am somewhere else, I can use that to get my passwords. If my hard drive dies and I lose everything, all I have to do is install the plugin after the repairs and re-install, type in my email and master password and I'm back in business. I been using it for a good while and so far, it works fairly well. Every once in a while I run up on a site that doesn't fill in automatically but it does when I right click and tell it too.=20 It may at least be something worth looking at.=20 Dale :-) :-)=20