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When anon woke up one morning, he thought it would be another day of shitposting mixed with a few minutes of futile search for jobs.
What he didn't know however was that Firefox reached version 57 which would stop supporting a number of addons and that he set the browser to automatically update.
Now if that was it it wouldn't be a very interesting story. What makes this interesting is twofold. One, anon liked to save his important websites by keeping a tab open and two, like an idiot anon didn't do a proper backup but instead trusted in a session manager addon which remembers all his tabs and windows.
So back to anon's morning. He boots up his computer and opens his favorite open source browser. He sees an update window and thinks nothing of it, he's seen in many times before without a problem. But then it finishes and he notices something strange. His tabs are gone and only one window is open. No matter, the addon can restore his previous browsing session no problem. That's strange his addon page lists only four. That's when it hits him. It's the update he's been hearing for months, the dreaded update that would make many if not all of his favorite addons incompatible.
Frantic, he starts searching for solutions. His addon isn't supported in the new browser. Installing the previous version won't help since the 'update' has deleted all the adddon information. He cannot believe it, months of his work gone. That tab that he meant to check out later, that neat site that he meant to bookmark eventually. That tab with the pdf he meant to read eventually. All gone.
He doesn't scream and shout however. He is much too mature for silly antics like that. Calmly he searches for the nearest hardware store and calculates what length of rope he would need to hang himself in his garage.
▶ No.822747>>822755
>trying to get a job/become a slave
>using firefox
You need to rethink your life goals and browser choices.
▶ No.822749>>822881 >>824872
>not having a job
>keeping your favourite websites' URLs inside the browser instead of using a text file or something
The rope should be as least twice as long as the distance between the beam and the ground.
▶ No.822751
>>822744 (OP)
>Firefox 57 destroys months of one anon's life
I like it already.
▶ No.822755>>822758 >>828213
>>822747
Not all of us are blessed to live in a socialist state.
▶ No.822756
>using windows
>ever not disabling autoupdate
Your "work" was worthless anyway and you know it.
▶ No.822758>>822760 >>828213
>>822755
You can live extravagantly without working in capitalist countries. You just need to be born into the owning class.
▶ No.822759
▶ No.822760>>822832
>>822758
Alas, if I was only given the option to choose my lineage
▶ No.822769
Wish Firefox would literally kill you and destroy your whole life.
▶ No.822774>>822816
>some weird nightly dev build firefox 28
>get no updates
>everything still magically works
>no forced updates
>user agent spoof around blocks
I updated a school laptop once and lost like 50 bookmarks, since then there's a certain level of paranoia
▶ No.822778>>824962
What's with the influx of edge faggots?
▶ No.822816>>822821 >>822847
>>822774
>some weird nightly dev build firefox 28
>28
Enjoy gangrape by browser exploits.
▶ No.822821>>822826
>>822816
>implying you can get exploited w/o PajeeScript enabled
▶ No.822825
>>822744 (OP)
>shitposting internet tabs
>"work"
A rope is the right solution indeed, though you should have used it long before this happened.
▶ No.822826
>>822821
but how will you browse fecesbook?
▶ No.822827>>828856
>another day of shitposting mixed with a few minutes of futile search for jobs.
hits too close to home
▶ No.822847
>he uses automatic updates
>instead of letting stupid normies updating and testing it first
>he doesn't have backups
>>822744 (OP)
<He cannot believe it, months of his work gone
You should holocaust Mozilla Corporation for that
>>822816
>implying someone will target weird nightly dev build firefox 28 used by one person
▶ No.822860>>822862
>not using bookmarks
I shiggy diggy
▶ No.822862>>826332
>>822860
its like those faggots saying "why save porn when you can just stream it lol"
▶ No.822866
>favorite addons incompatible.
Name them fuck face.
▶ No.822870
>>822744 (OP)
>it's another "anon doesn't pay attention to dikes, is fucked up by flood" episode
You deserved it tbqh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjbasba-Qw
▶ No.822877
>>822744 (OP)
>searching for wagecuck jobs
>not neetopian lifestyle
>not earning through crypto wizardry or some furry porn gamedev kickstarter
>not using furrymoon browser
>using sorosfox
Your life choices were wrong all along but the last part about the rope was finally the right decisive choice
▶ No.822881
>>822749
>using a text file
renaissance man right here
▶ No.822884>>823035 >>823037
It just so happens that I had to reinstall my OS (after the monitors started glitching out on a nigga) and I had already lost everything so firefox couldn't damage what was already toasted.
I like the new one tbh. It's a lot faster than 56 except sometimes when it has been inactive for a while it takes some time it has this loading screen that takes sometime before it disappears and the page displays again.
▶ No.822898>>823035
Now you learned an important lesson: don't implicitely trust your data to any program. If you can't easily view/edit your configuration & related stuff in a simple text editor, then either the program or the format it uses are fubar by design. Netscape at least used to save bookmarks to html file. I guess Firefox started out that way too, but eventually they went and "improved" it.
▶ No.822948>>823035
Maybe if anon wasn't a massive retard, he would have bookmarked all of his favorite sites. I see no positive side to using tabs instead of bookmarks.
▶ No.822964
You can thank you're Jewgle overlords anon. You're situation was planned for.
▶ No.822970>>822979
▶ No.822979>>823035
>>822970
>thinks ESR will save him
Listen to me. Eventually ESR will get to version 57 and beyond. What will you do then?
>>822744 (OP)
My sympathies brother although you're a dumbass for not backing up your bookmarks, links, PDF files, etc. For God's sake learn this lesson well: whatever you find on the Internet that is worth saving, you save it on disk. Including bookmarks.
With that victim blaming out of the way, you as a user should have never gone through this and fuck the developers. They don't care about the user and as such they don't care about backward development. They fix something that ain't broke because otherwise they got nothing to do, except plug security holes and that's boring amirite! They wanna add new features and break old stuff even though the users DON'T want any of that shit!
Obligatory link:
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/software-development-cancer.html
▶ No.823024
>using FF post version 23
For what purpose?
▶ No.823031
smooth scrolling isnt shit on 57
▶ No.823035
>>822884
>It just so happens that I had to reinstall my OS (after the monitors started glitching out on a nigga) and I had already lost everything so firefox couldn't damage what was already toasted.
What do you mean you lost everything? Had you have house fire and your hard disk melted?
>>822898
>Now you learned an important lesson: don't implicitely trust your data to any program. If you can't easily view/edit your configuration & related stuff in a simple text editor, then either the program or the format it uses are fubar by design.
You are right, export to common format is important. But had this idiot (OP) backup his firefox data, he could just install his old version and restore his data.
>Netscape at least used to save bookmarks to html file. I guess Firefox started out that way too, but eventually they went and "improved" it.
There is import/export to html in firefox. But OP didn't use it. It would take him 2 minutes to do it, he could be doing that every 3 days.
>>822948
>Maybe if anon wasn't a massive retard, he would have bookmarked all of his favorite sites.
he doesn't needed. he could just backup firefox data or sessionstore (recovery.js)
>I see no positive side to using tabs instead of bookmarks.
tabs allow you to click on tab to load it from cache. bookmarks cannot be loaded from cache
>>822979
>Listen to me. Eventually ESR will get to version 57 and beyond. What will you do then?
nothing, just stay on it. because it's ESR, it got many security fixes instead of stupid "features", so it will be pretty safe
▶ No.823037
>>822884
<ctl><alt><f1> and reinstall your graphics drivers
>stupid monkey nigger.
▶ No.823110
>That tab that he meant to check out later, that neat site that he meant to bookmark eventually. That tab with the pdf he meant to read eventually.
Don't be silly. Everybody knows anon would never check it out or read it. Only anon can be so foolish to think otherwise.
▶ No.823118
>>822744 (OP)
The update haven't broken my session restoring. Maybe try enabling legacy addons or ESR.
▶ No.823268
>>822744 (OP)
>OMG WHAT ARE BOOKMARKS
>HELP
>HOW DO I COMPUTER
>OH GOD PLEASE HELP
▶ No.823299
> not using bookmarks
Don't fuck with calculations. Just do it, faggot.
▶ No.824779
>>822744 (OP)
Cool story bro. Good luck calculating the rope length or whatever.
▶ No.824782
>using tabs as substitutes for bookmarks
>still using firefox
the fuck?
▶ No.824791
Thanks for making yet another thread about Firefox 57 instead of using one that's already in the catalog. Another quality /tech/ contribution.
▶ No.824872>>824924
>>822749
>using text file
>not html doc
Barbarians.
▶ No.824924
>>824872
>Using html doc
That's a pretty good idea.
▶ No.824942
>>822744 (OP)
There was an advancement in browser usability 20 years ago call "bookmarks", it may be of interest to you.
▶ No.824955>>825730
Thanks to those motherfuckers at Canonical removing the option to disable updates on the Ubuntu build of Firefox, my browser has now apparently been updated to v57 without my consent. I'm still in a v56 session. Hold me, /tech/. I'm scared. I've got Pale Moon instead but still haven't gotten around to migrating all my extension settings (the ones that can be migrated anyway) to it yet.
▶ No.824962
>>822778
It's one guy from /tv/ that loves to shitpost and samefag.
▶ No.825730
>>824955
You can tell APT to lock packages iirc. You can also download the ESR linux version from ftp.mozilla.org
▶ No.825903
>>822744 (OP)
>had already set Firefox to never remember history
>had Self Destructing Cookies installed but it became obsolete
>install Cookie AutoDelete which does the same exact thing
>uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere still work fine
>just bookmark all the shit I frequent and download files or pages I might want to view later
Wow, that Anon sure was a fucking retard in that little story of yours.
▶ No.826087
>>822744 (OP) Checking out of reality.
Luckily I haven't updated yet. They expected one of us in the wreckage brother.
F
▶ No.826202
>>822744 (OP)
Just use Brave you pajeet
▶ No.826332
>>822862
>not just remembering your favourate porn and jacking off to the memory
the only lag I experiance is when my arm gets tired
▶ No.826436>>826682
>Firefox auto-updates to 57
>"This sucks"
>Uninstall and re-install 56
>Preferences didn't get uninstalled and migrated perfectly
>Disable autoupdate before re-enabling internet
>Back to shitposting with all my full-featured addons
It just werks
▶ No.826682
>>826436
Yeah, where are preferences and shit saved? I installed 56 in a different directory and it still had all the original setting and tabs
▶ No.826693
Why do people keep dozens of tabs open for weeks? How does it not drive them crazy? Do you know that there's a bookmark feature?
▶ No.827321
>>822744 (OP)
>OP was a tablet
>didn't save bookmarks
>doesn't periodically store his bookmarks file to external or remote media
>kept automatic updates on
>loses his porn bookmarks
Hahahaha, let me guess, OP is a Windows user too.
▶ No.827340
The only addon I still need replacing for is videodownloadhelper. I have bulk media downloader, but it's kind of fucky, and there's no way to actually see the download progress that I can figure out, it's not showing anywhere. So I have to manually check in the download folder until the downloaded file no longer says .part lol.
▶ No.827623>>827627 >>828844
What is a good replacement for session manager anyway?
All those tabs were open before the update and reopened fine after the update. So I have no idea what the fuck you did to screw it up op.
▶ No.827627
>>827623
What do you need a replacement for? Session Manager works in Pale Moon.
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▶ No.827629
A word of warning (that's probably too late) for anyone thinking of migrating: Sometime between v52 and v56 Mozilla changed the way that browser history and favicons are stored in their .sqlite files that makes it difficult if not impossible for older version or Pale Moon to get this information if it's already been converted to the current way of storing them. If you're using v52 ESR until you decide whether or to move to another Gecko derivative, be very careful to not allow it to update when Mozilla eventually decides to bump its version up.
▶ No.827897>>828206
Imagine being so disempowered in your own failed state of a country that you resort to wasting your days away tilting at windmills by writing bad fanfiction about people being angry at browsers. Perish faster you fat cuck.
▶ No.828206>>828211
>>827897
This attitude comes from the way people have been trained to deal with software. People normally understand how life is with proprietary software: users are normally forbidden to study and improve the software that they use. As a consequence, they only evaluate software based on what features are available today and do nothing but complain when it doesn't have the features they desire. With free software, users have all the freedom to change and improve it. Since most users don't understand that responsibility is related to freedom, they still bring in their normal way of evaluating software and complaining that it is inadequate. Many users have a strong sense of entitlement when it comes to free software.
▶ No.828211>>828243
>>828206
>this attitud..
Stopped reading here. Go back to reddit.
▶ No.828213>>828953 >>836096
▶ No.828243
>>828211
>Go back to reddit
Stopped reading here.
▶ No.828359
>>822744 (OP)
>regularly perform offsite backups
>firefox 57 assfucks everything
>oh well
>uninstall ff 57
>install Icecat
>import backed up profile
Back to business as usual.
Seriously, back up your shit, you never think it's going to happen to you until it does.
▶ No.828440>>828447
jokes on you guys, I have a job
▶ No.828447
>>828440
Enjoy getting paid pittance to make your jewish boss money
▶ No.828844
>>827623
259 tabs? The fuck? Have you ever heard of housekeeping? Of course not, you're on /g/'s SOMEHOW more autistic little brother. Tell me, how much grime is adhered to the bottom of your mouse? Have you ever rubbed your hands together like a jew, only to see tiny dirt sausages emerge from your hands like magic? I bet you have, fatty.
▶ No.828953
>>828213
>>>/triggeredpol/
▶ No.836096
>>828213
None of what these anons have said is false.