Am 21.07.2015 um 01:18 schrieb walt: > 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 years out of date.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. > > > >
you know, a simple cronjob copying your home directory every odd day would have prevented all that.
