On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 08:41 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > I mean that I have always had issues getting a new install of Firefox > to use the the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<generated-name> directory that is > referenced in your profiles.ini and installs.ini in this directory. > It contains everything. Any underlying Firefox install before the > restore on a fresh image will give you a different directory name. > This means that your backups are broken wrt. Firefox. I can find no > docs on how to do this restore correctly, so if someone knows.. The simplest approach to putting your old config into a brand new install, is to completely delete the new config files and directories of the fresh install, then copy all your old ones over. It should go without saying that Firefox must not be running, at all, during this. But I'll say it, anyway. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 23:49:17 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
