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At the time of the switch to LibreWolf I looked over all the changed settings in about:config for sanity, and for things that I actively wanted to handle differently now. run the new version, it should pick up whichever profile you previously used in ~/.librewolf.Īs an example, one of my 'everyday driver' Firefox profile started out in 2006/2008 thereabouts and was brought forward 'by doing nothing special to it' over countless versions all the way into 2022, when I switched to LibreWolf, and copied this profile over as a starting point for LW (i.e., keeping all my FireFox history, bookmarks, extensions, their settings, and so on - this means one has to configure LW to not discard those before first restarting it - I chose what works as a personal compromise for me, and use private browsing mode, or beyond that, separate throwaway profiles, when I feel the need for more privacy).

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From/to which locations?įor continued use of an updated version of LibreWolf, it's sufficient to install the new version/unpack the updated AppImage/., and just let it use the existing profile - i.e. A running browser instance will only ever use one of those, you can check in Menu => Help => More troubleshooting information.įor backup and migration purposes, you should consider each asdfghjk.profileName directory as one monolithic thing - rsync in a mode that makes the target identical to the source obviously is OK, but I don't see where your need to rsync something comes from in the first place. If you do have multiple profiles under your ~/.librewolf directory, invoking librewolf -ProfileManager will allow you to manage those. Where are the multiple different profile directories coming from that you feel a need to synchronize/consolidate? That's why it makes sense to keep backups around.

Switching to older versions is not always supported: when the profile has already been updated to newer technologies not supported by an older version you're trying to run, the older application version can't use such a profile and display a message saying so. There's no need to do anything special with it when switching to a newer version - intended best practice is to just let each newer application version continue to use the existing profile from any previous version. What type of settings do you mean / are you worried about to 'break'?ī) Going from (A), the profile (directory) you're seeing is created implicitly when first running the browser, not when it's installed. Likewise, the default profile created by running LibreWolf without an existing profile (directory) will be set up with some sensible defaults which, at first glance, all correspond to non-advanced settings readily displayed in its settings. Anything not specified in the profile will track the compiled-in defaults of whichever application version you're launching. The profile only contains differences to default settings, as well as what can be thought of as databases - think history, bookmarks, cookies etc, as well as installed extensions. A Firefox-based browser unable to load/work with the profile (directory) of a previous version would be considered a (serious) bug, and should be reported as such. Each profile contains metadata about its structure level / which version of the application last touched it.

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Think about how Firefox would handle profiles of multiple users when installed as a normal, system-wide application - the application update does not know about different user profiles, those are the complete responsibility of the (updated) application, when it starts. (One reason to keep profile backups around when updating the application.)

In certain cases, an updated profile will then refuse to load in an older version of the application, with an appropriate message. This happens 'silently' when you first start the browser with a profile that's not up to whatever structural features might be required by the new current version.

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All those applications 'know' how to bring practically any profile from (almost) any previous version up to current structure. Some of my thoughts/what I know about how Mozilla profiles work:Ī) Profiles/Profile directories of Firefox (and Thunderbird, and LibreWolf being forked from Firefox, etc) are not 'tied' to a specific release version of the software. this did get long, but I decided to leave it that way and rather give too much background. What kind of breakage are you worried about? I think I can kinda understand where you're coming from.

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