Message-ID: <6abc4530@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Updating Firefox/slackware Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox References: <119h79d$3k64k$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 30 Sep 2026 09:09:36 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 28 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:18240 The Real Bev wrote: > Being a generally untrusting person, I want to be able to try an update > and revert to my previous version if I don't like the new one. > > I download and untar the new version (157 in this case). > Start it from within its own separate subdirectory and generate a new > profile. > Shut it down. > Copy (cp -raf *) over ALL the contents of the old profile. > Restart and test. The profile files are usually created relative to the user's home directory in Linux, not the installation directory, so I'm not sure what you were copying where. But note that Firefox might now store some things under ~/.config and ~/.local rather than ~/.mozilla since it adopted the "XDG Base Directory Specification": https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory I think it only creates the new locations if there's no existing ~/.mozilla directory when it starts up, but maybe you did that at one point and it switched over to the new paths as a result, ignoring the old ~/.mozilla directory that you copied back afterwards? -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#