On 22/11/17 12:28, Bev Nicolson wrote:
On 22/11/17 11:43, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 22 November 2017 at 11:37, Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk wrote:
I had hoped to be prepared for whenever the upgrade to Firefox 57 occurred but it turns out I haven't been. This is because the Software Updater hadn't offered 57. Anyway, it seems I have lost all my ScrapBook pages.
<snip> Not sure - isn't it all binary data in your profile?
What is Scrapbook?
ScrapBook is/was a Firefox add on that enabled you to save webpages as is. You can add 'sticky notes' or highlight things on them too if you want. Or you could.
Bev, if you haven't done much to try to fix it, you may be able to get-away with downgrading. I only know how to do this on Synaptic package manager. If you have this - cool. If not, google how to do it!
Actually, first, your data will probably be stored in a subdirectory of
/home/USERNAME/.mozilla/firefox-4.0 replace USERNAME with your username. Probably best to back up the whole thing as packages use codes to identify themselves, rather than names.
After backing up. If you have synaptic. In the Quick find box, type firefox. On the left hand-side, click on installed. This will show you the firefox programs you have installed. I have 3 firefox firefox-locale-en xul-ext-ubufox. First two showed version 57, the last one 3.4(something)
Click on Firefox. In the package menu, click on Force Version. Chose 56(something) from the drop down list. Repeat for Firefox-local-en. Repeat for xul-ext-ubufox, but chose version 3.3 something.
Once you've done that, click apply and it will install the old version, over the top of the new version. Once the install is finished, for each of these three programs, go to Package menu and tick lock version. The icon for each should turn to a padlock.
Hopefully this should move you back to the last version of Firefox. Try it and see if it is working OK.
I got caught doing an apt-get-upgrade which installed V57 without me noticing! Pinning the firefox version is not a viable long term solution.
There is a legacy or long-term support version of firefox you could try, but I can't remember what it is called. There's also palemoon, or just switch to chrome, but whatever, you'll have to get equivalent add-ons to do what you want to do. If this resurrects your firefox OK, see if there are going to be any updates to your add-ons to that will work with V57.
Good luck. Steve