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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 43487@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43487: icecat store names in user profiles break bundled addons
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:16:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200921131648.GA15766@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6xn8tr6.fsf@netris.org>

Hello Mark,

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:48:34AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> To temporarily fix these problems while retaining most of your user
> data, one option is to press the "Refresh IceCat…" button in
> <about:support>.  Choosing this option will reset all your preferences
> and addons to the IceCat defaults, but allows you to preserve the rest
> of your data, including your bookmarks, browser history, cookies, saved
> passwords, and your open tabs.

thanks for this (very hidden) work-around. I confirm that it has worked
very well for me. And I would just like to mention a (not problematic)
caveat: "reset your addons" also includes removing additional add-ons
installed by the user.

> A proper fix will likely involve modifying the relevant code in IceCat
> to either avoid storing the full file names in extensions.json, or else
> to detect them on startup and automatically "refresh" them as needed.

So refreshing in the above sense should not be done without asking the
user first.

Andreas





  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-18  6:48 bug#43487: icecat store names in user profiles break bundled addons Mark H Weaver
2020-09-21 13:16 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2020-09-21 17:53   ` Mark H Weaver
2020-09-25 18:46     ` Andreas Enge

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