Closed Bug 1557956 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

new profile firefox 67.0.1

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

67 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: news, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

upgrade firefox to 67.0.1 and start firefox

Actual results:

forced to create a new profile without the option to use the old profile

Expected results:

a option to use the old profile. I rsync my /home/user from my pc to my notebook if I use my notebook. I never rsync the content back. For as long as I use firefox this works without problems. No this wan't work anymore.
I know there are users with problem because of different versions and I also know that you want to have a lot of data from our users. But there should allways be an option for users that now what to do and don't want to give information to some cloud-servers.
I will take a look on firefox again in a few months. But for now I am forced to migrate to another browser.

Component: Untriaged → Startup and Profile System
Product: Firefox → Toolkit

Can you tell me what happened when you started Firefox. What kind of message did you see about creating a new profile?

Flags: needinfo?(news)

To clear things up:

On my desktop I use gentoo with firefox 60.7.0esr. On my Laptop I use kubuntu now with firefox 67.0.1.
As I said before I rsync my home-directory from my desktop to my laptop to have all relevant data with me and I never sync back.
That was working as long as I use firefox. And that is as long as firefox exists.

After upgrade to 67.0 on my laptop firefox start with a Message (translated from german): "Urgent Info .... this installation uses a new profile .... use a firefox-account". After exiting firefox and starting firefox -P and select the normal profile firefox starts with the normal profile and works perfectly. After upgrade to 67.0.1 starting firefox -P and selecting normal profile only gives me a message "Using an older version of Firefox can corrupt bookmarks and browser history ..... cerate a new profile" with the only options "Create New Profile" or "Quit".

No Option "I know what I do and I know I'm on my own with problems so start anyway!"

This behavior makes firefox useless for me.

Flags: needinfo?(news)

This is intentional. Using different versions of Firefox with the same profile is known to cause issues and so now different installs use different profiles.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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