Re: Garbled output with Firefox 77

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 11:54, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > Apparently, one has to create a new FF profile with every version
> > upgrade, however minor it is.
> >
> > I moved from 68.1 to 68.9 and to had to make a new profile, else
> > nothing worked as before.
>
> That seems really crazy to have to make a new profile, especially for
> minor releases of an ESR version.
> This doesn't seem to be true on mac firefox.

This is established policy:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474285

It shouldn't happen on ESR but there are plenty of reports on Reddit.

I suspect FF from pkgsrc is labelled as "Nightly".

It only takes a second to restart FF in safe mode and see if it is a
problem with the profile.


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Ottavio Caruso