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Another one of those updates that loses all your settings.
Last night, when I shut down Firefox, it closed 14 tabs, nothing
unusual. This morning, it performed an 'update' (really a degrade), and
on launch, it had only 4 or 5 tabs. Telling it to restore all tabs
failed, and I now have a weird combination of tabs and windows, that
don't all connect to the internet correctly. The suggested file that
was supposed to hold information on the previous setup contained only a
link to hte last time I tried to get vlc to display an rtsp source.
Oh dear, this will take some time to sort out.
Grrrr.....
--
Davey.

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On 27/02/2026 11:07, Davey wrote:

Another one of those updates that loses all your settings.
Last night, when I shut down Firefox, it closed 14 tabs, nothing
unusual. This morning, it performed an 'update' (really a degrade), and
on launch, it had only 4 or 5 tabs. Telling it to restore all tabs
failed, and I now have a weird combination of tabs and windows, that
don't all connect to the internet correctly. The suggested file that
was supposed to hold information on the previous setup contained only a
link to hte last time I tried to get vlc to display an rtsp source.
Oh dear, this will take some time to sort out.
Grrrr.....

Of course you backed up your Firefox profile folder before you updated?

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:39:52 +0000
mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

On 27/02/2026 11:07, Davey wrote:

Another one of those updates that loses all your settings.
Last night, when I shut down Firefox, it closed 14 tabs, nothing
unusual. This morning, it performed an 'update' (really a degrade),
and on launch, it had only 4 or 5 tabs. Telling it to restore all
tabs failed, and I now have a weird combination of tabs and
windows, that don't all connect to the internet correctly. The
suggested file that was supposed to hold information on the
previous setup contained only a link to hte last time I tried to
get vlc to display an rtsp source. Oh dear, this will take some
time to sort out. Grrrr.....

Of course you backed up your Firefox profile folder before you
updated?

Unfortunately not. Usually it doesn't matter.....
Oh well.
--
Davey.

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On 27/02/2026 14:35, Davey wrote:

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:39:52 +0000
mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

On 27/02/2026 11:07, Davey wrote:

Another one of those updates that loses all your settings.
Last night, when I shut down Firefox, it closed 14 tabs, nothing
unusual. This morning, it performed an 'update' (really a degrade),
and on launch, it had only 4 or 5 tabs. Telling it to restore all
tabs failed, and I now have a weird combination of tabs and
windows, that don't all connect to the internet correctly. The
suggested file that was supposed to hold information on the
previous setup contained only a link to hte last time I tried to
get vlc to display an rtsp source. Oh dear, this will take some
time to sort out. Grrrr.....

Of course you backed up your Firefox profile folder before you
updated?

Unfortunately not. Usually it doesn't matter.....
Oh well.

I know of this only because a Thunderbird update fannied with the
profile meaning it was impossible to go back to an older version of Thunderbird if you didn't like the never ending UI changes.

So I have all Mozilla stuff set to tell me there are updates but do
nothing. It gives me a chance to back up the profile then accept the
update. Been there, been burnt.

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On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:59:35 +0000
mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

On 27/02/2026 14:35, Davey wrote:

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:39:52 +0000
mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

On 27/02/2026 11:07, Davey wrote:

Another one of those updates that loses all your settings.
Last night, when I shut down Firefox, it closed 14 tabs, nothing
unusual. This morning, it performed an 'update' (really a
degrade), and on launch, it had only 4 or 5 tabs. Telling it to
restore all tabs failed, and I now have a weird combination of
tabs and windows, that don't all connect to the internet
correctly. The suggested file that was supposed to hold
information on the previous setup contained only a link to hte
last time I tried to get vlc to display an rtsp source. Oh dear,
this will take some time to sort out. Grrrr.....

Of course you backed up your Firefox profile folder before you
updated?

Unfortunately not. Usually it doesn't matter.....
Oh well.

I know of this only because a Thunderbird update fannied with the
profile meaning it was impossible to go back to an older version of Thunderbird if you didn't like the never ending UI changes.

So I have all Mozilla stuff set to tell me there are updates but do
nothing. It gives me a chance to back up the profile then accept the
update. Been there, been burnt.

Sounds like a plan.

They seem to come thick and fast.
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Davey.

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:07:34 +0000, Davey <davey@example.invalid>
wrote:

Another one of those updates that loses all your settings.
Last night, when I shut down Firefox, it closed 14 tabs, nothing
unusual. This morning, it performed an 'update' (really a degrade), and
on launch, it had only 4 or 5 tabs. Telling it to restore all tabs
failed, and I now have a weird combination of tabs and windows, that
don't all connect to the internet correctly. The suggested file that
was supposed to hold information on the previous setup contained only a
link to hte last time I tried to get vlc to display an rtsp source.
Oh dear, this will take some time to sort out.
Grrrr.....
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I've lost my WebSudoku history and had to relog in on a number of
sites. For a moment I thought I must have been using a m$oft browser.

No: I'm set to automatically update so I didn't have a profile backup
at hand. I could restore last week's from my backup routine.
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AnthonyL

Why ever wait to finish a job before starting the next?
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