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. Or at least, the question I want to ask is, how can I find out for sure that I have? The home and computer directory have been searched for 'firefox data' but no dice.
Bev.
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.
I've got 'apt-mark hold firefox' but not sure if it is effective (think recently there has been some cosmetic change), so maybe hold doesn't really stop firefox updating itself.
Or at least, the question I want to ask is, how can I find out for sure that I have? The home and computer directory have been searched for 'firefox data' but no dice.
Not sure - isn't it all binary data in your profile?
What is Scrapbook?
Regards, Srdj
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.
On 22 November 2017 12:28:04 GMT+00:00, Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk 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.
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Bev
Try palemoon. It says it has scrapbook in its addons. I've just dumped ff in favour of palemoon and so far, so good.
Mick
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
PS. I'm sure it's possible to do this with other tools apart from synaptic, but that's what I'm familiar with.
Steve
pps
There is a PPA for palemoon. See:
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:stevenpusser&pa...
Steve
Bev is having a problem replying to list so emailed me off list. Replying without context, on and off list...
I've googled and managed to find out how to downgrade a package using apt-get. Which I will come back to in a moment.
I accidentally installed an update to firefox, tried it, missed my add-ons, so downgraded using synaptic. Once I had downgraded, I had to tweak the toolbars etc, but everything worked again. I didn't lose anything. So it's probably worth trying.
Palemoon looks nice to me, like an old version of Firefox. Many firefox plugins work directly in Palemoon, however not all. If a firefox update has been updated to work on the new firefox, it is probable that it will not work on Palemoon. It's worth giving it a go I guess. I also guess that Palemoon won't have as big a team behind it as Chrome or Firefox, so from a security point of view, you're probably best with a big-name browser at least for stuff like shopping!
This link helped on how to downgrade.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/138284/how-to-downgrade-a-package-via-apt-ge...
Shutdown firefox first.
Use apt-cache showpkg <package-name> to show a list of available versions for a package (firefox produces pages!) Do it for firefox, firefox-locale-en and xul-ext-ubufox. My versions for these are 56.0+build6-0ubuntu1, 56.0+build6-0ubuntu1 and 3.3-0ubuntu2.
Apparently you can then do
sudo apt-get install <package-name>=<package-version-number>
so I guess you'd do all three on one line:
sudo apt-get install firefox=56.0+build6-0ubuntu1 firefox-locale-en=56.0+build6-0ubuntu1 xul-ext-ubufox=3.3-0ubuntu2
(all on one line).
If that works, then see if firefox works & has downgraded. If all's OK, then try
apt-mark hold <package-name> which "holds" the package at the current version, preventing automatic upgrades.
sudo apt-mark hold firefox firefox-locale-en xul-ext-ubufox
Hope this helps.
Steve
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