Good bye Firefox! You officially suck!
I hate Mozilla doing "upgrades" without my permission, sometimes in the middle of me doing something. It's always been a hassle to search and reinstall all of my extensions, but that was nothing compared to what happened on 8/30/2016:
I had stored a large number of tabs in older sessions, but at the time of the "upgrade" I only had a window open with a couple of tabs. The upgrade wiped all of my previous browsing sessions, and only saved the two tabs that I had open, in the upgrade.js file. Now I can't recover things I was working on.
A simple "You need to upgrade your browser. Should we proceed now or later?" would have sufficed.
Well, screw you Firefox! I'm switching to Chrome.
To everyone else: you might be ok now, but Mozilla will find a way to screw you as well, because they don't care about you.
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You realize what happened is not normal and not by design, right?
Where were you saving your sessions; were you using the Session Manager extension?
Could you check your old data in these places:
(1) On the Windows desktop, in a folder named Old Firefox Data. This may contain one or more semi-randomly-named profile folders that are moved there during a Refresh. Check for anything freshly updated.
(2) In Firefox's Profiles folder. To get to this, from within Firefox:
- "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information
- (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information
- type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter
In the first table on the page, click the "Show Folder" button. This should launch your current (sessions missing) profile in Windows Explorer.
Glance at the folder name for reference, then use the up navigation button to move up to the Profiles (plural) folder and see whether you have any other profile folders here. If so, check for anything freshly updated.
Thank you, jscher2000,
1. I see no such folder in "my desktop". Could it be somewhere else? I'm using XP. 2. Profiles folder has two folders. One is the current profile folder. The other contains nothing but \extensions\staged\{bcf837d7-fc5f-7a2e-5932-211927489a0b}, and there are no files anywhere.
What I really detest is how update/upgrade will automatically download and install, without asking .
Those are the two most obvious locations. Do you have multiple users set up on Windows? In that case, there could be Firefox profiles under other users' Application Data folders. But that would cause permission confusion, so probably you don't.
Usually Firefox honors your setting for updates, but you have to go looking for it: Advanced panel - Accessibility, browsing, network, updates, and other advanced settings in Firefox.
Some users have said if they are busy typing and not looking at the screen, it's easy to accidentally OK the update dialog when it appears (I think a space bar will "press" a selected button). There's nothing I can suggest for that one.
In some cases, for example, if someone is five versions out of date, Firefox may override the preference on the theory that the notification must not be working and no one really wants to be 5+ versions out of date.
banana1979 said
... I'm switching to Chrome.
Good luck with that. Chrome ended support for WinXP back in April 2016. http://www.cnet.com/news/google-finally-pulling-the-plug-on-chrome-for-windows-xp/