Alert! New Abrowser update for Aramo loses all information
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Just that. Just updated Abrowser to version 147.0.1 (64-bit) and all information was lost.
No Mozilla account.
No Extensions.
No Bookmarks.
No saved passwords.
Issue created:
Abrowser update 147.0.1 (64-bit) for Aramo loses all information (#10) · Issue · trisquel/app-install-data
https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/app-install-data/-/issues/10
Have you tried restarting the browser (or even the whole system)?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Haha.
Tried to use profile manager (command abrowser -P) to switch between the two profiles 'default' and 'default-release', but no changes happened.
Still, the data is there! Directory ~/.mozilla/abrowser/*.default-release has 35500 files, 876,5 MB. Directory extensions alone has 54,6 MB of files. Directory bookmarkbackups has 15 files of half a megabyte - the bookmarks are there, only in a peculiar Abrowser JSON format that no apps seems to display right. The data is there, it is just that the new abrowser version fails to find it.
I have just resigned myself to reinstall everything in Abrowser. So, just to get a clean start, I thought of uninstalling Abrowser and reinstalling it - but it turns out that you cannot do that in Trisquel. The Add/Remove Applications panel informs you that Abrowser cannot be uninstalled from there and that you need to use Synaptic Package Manager. And then, if you try to install the package abrowser from Synaptic, it tells you that three other packages will be uninstalled too - triskel-recommended, trisquel-mini-recommended, and trisquel-recommended. I have no particular desire to find out what happens if you do that.
So, to deal with this issue, it gets down to restore your Abrowser manually:
- Reintroduce the mozilla account if you have one, then sync. That should get back whatever you have synced in your mozilla account - bookmarks, history, open tabs, passwords, addresses, payment methods, add-ons and settings.
- For the data you do not have synced, you'll need to:
- Bookmarks: Import from backup.
- Extensions: you need to find and reinstall them, and then you'll might need to restore the extension data - for instance, extensions such as NoScript, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin have an awful lot of user-defined data that would be a pain to reintroduce from the start, so you better had a backup for that.
- Passwords, payment methods, etc.: Reintroduce one by one. Painful. If by any chance, you failed to note down some password or lost the note, you'll need to perform a password recovery procedure.
- History, Open tabs: Not synced? Lost.
- Settigns: Not synced? You'll need to go through all of the settings trying to figure out the choices you had.
Fixed. Decided to make an experiment - to create a new profile, then to copy the old data into it. And then... I had the "That's curious" moment. I could not find my old data. Where was it? It turns out, the new version of Abrowser stores the profiles under ~/.config/mozilla/abrowser/ instead of under ~/.mozilla/abrowser/ ! What the heck??? I just needed to create a new profile, choose a folder for it, and then choose the old folder.
Using your directions I've found the recent bookmarks and restored them to the new Abrowser, thanks !
What the heck???
It is actually the proper way to store the config data. With the change, a 21-year-old bug was fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356
I have done the update and faced no problem. According to :gerard-majax, who fixed the bug:
If there is $HOME/.mozilla/firefox it will continue with legacy behavior.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356#c228
I update manually every time this laptop is started and never had all settings wiped before. As mentioned the bookmarks backup was found and reset.
Opened Abrowser today and everything was gone. All bookmarks, settings etc. Have to start all over again. No warning this would happen with the 147.0.1 update.
The only add on it remembered was uBlock Origin but everything else has gone. The settings for Abrowser all had to be re-configured manually. I can't find the profile.
Why has Abrowser changed its settings. Is this a Mozilla change trisquel/gnu/linux has no control over ?
Help! I lost everything on abrowser! Meanwhile, this hit at very busy time. I wish Mozilla had warned us.
Where does the abrowser profile live? What specific directory? It has been a longer time since I looked at it, since I am not a programer.
Should I follow the Firefox instructions on replacing a damaged profile?
I am on Falkon browser right now.
Thanks.
Update-
My profile folder still exists and I saved a copy in Downloads.
First of all, to find the profile I had to go to Caja and check the View Hidden Folders box under View. Why does this box keep unchecking itself?
Then I tried renaming the default profile as "old" and copying the proper profile from mozilla/abrowser to config/mozilla/abrowser.
It didn't work. Should I reinstall abrowser and replace the profile with the good profile?
Update-
My profile folder still exists and I save a copy in Downloads.
First of all, to find the profile I had to go to Caja and check the View Hidden Folders box under View. Why does this box keep unchecking itself?
Then I tried renaming the default profile as "old" and copying the proper profile from mozilla/abrowser to config/mozilla/abrowser.
It didn't work. Should I reinstall abrowser and replace the profile with the good profile?
Update-
My profile folder still exists and I save a copy in Downloads.
First of all, to find the profile I had to go to Caja and check the View Hidden Folders box under View. Why does this box keep unchecking itself?
Then I tried renaming the default profile as "old" and copying the proper profile from mozilla/abrowser to config/mozilla/abrowser.
It didn't work. Should I reinstall abrowser and replace the profile with the good profile?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-user-data-missing-after-firefox-update
I haven't tried this yet...
Abrowser v147.0.1 is looking into a new ~/.config/mozilla/abrowser folder instead of looking into ~/.mozilla/abrowser.
Replacing the content of the newly created folder with the content of the old folder should restore the old config without messing up with profiles.
EDIT: removed extraneous dot.
Indeed, sorry I just realize this was part of the update, I close my browser like once in 2 weeks.
Anyway, if you "lost your profile" please follow these instructions:
Warning: If you already moved your .mozilla folder and you have not yet recovered please ask for help, the following instructions are for the first timers with this issue.
0) Close any Abrowser instance running, if unsure if some instance is still running you can use,
pkill abrowser
1) Make sure everything is still at the original source folder:
find $HOME/.mozilla -maxdepth 2
If you see your profiles there, all good continue to step 2.
2) Remove empty profiles created when clicking Abrowser,
rm -rf .config/mozilla
3) Copy your original .mozilla folder to .config (note that at .config the folder no longer has . at the begging)
cp -R .mozilla .config/mozilla
4) Open Abrowser and all should be there, confirm before step 5.
Note: You might like to delay step 5 a couple of days, just to be sure.
5) If all is recovered, you can then, and only then, delete the original folder.
rm -rf .mozilla
This was a "home" folder update coming from our friends at Mozilla, sorry for the troubles.
Let me know if it worked for you.
Regards.
Thanks Ark74. Your instructions worked perfectly. I have to admit that I was a bit nervous using the rm -rf command, but in this case it came from a good source. Noobies beware!
Abrowser is now working as before along with all bookmarks and extensions. I realize that Trisquel is a volunteer effort, so many thanks!
As I wrote in https://trisquel.info/forum/alert-new-abrowser-update-aramo-loses-all-information#comment-182126 :
I have done the update and faced no problem.
Both on Trisquel 11 and on Trisquel 12, I ended up with no ~/.config/mozilla folder. ~/.mozilla is still used, as :gerard-majax promised. I closed Abrowser before the new version of Abrowser was getting installed. If you have not upgraded yet, do that and, I believe, you will neither face issues.
This new version of Abrowser- 147.0.1 64bit has sent uBlockOrigin back to an older(legacy) version 1.40.2 and it won't allow removal of this extension.
How can it be removed ?
I am a translator!
On Ecne, I also see that uBlockOrigin cannnot be removed and I have 1.55.0. If I create a new profile, I have that version of uBlockOrigin and another extension called Lightbeam 3.0.
You might want to remove:
webext-ublock-origin-firefox
so you can install a custom version.
You might have it catch it from a old version of abrowser, as of several versions ago it's only a suggestion:
apt-cache show abrowser|grep ublock Suggests: webext-ublock-origin, fonts-lyx
About lightbeam, you might be referring to:
webext-lightbeam
But I don't think we use it or have used it before, so maybe a legacy gift from the past?
Maybe you could do some apt log archive review to find out when and which package is responsible it's there.
Regards.