[PLUG] Firefox or security problems/

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:09:27 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> The problem remains trying to figure out which setting it is. Later
>> today I will rename the new .mozilla folder that it created just
>> now, then poke around in the old one to see if I get any clues. The
>> answer is in there somewhere.

>Copy one file or subdirectory at a time from your backup ~/.mozilla to
>the new one. Then close and re-open firefox. When it fails to load
>pages you know where to look for the reason.

This turned out to be harder than it sounded. There are hundreds of
folders in ~/.mozilla, and opening and closing Firefox over and over
became too tedious, so eventually I gave up. And I couldn't find
anything that looked like it had anything to do with proxies.

Eventually I decided just to create a new ~/.mozilla folder. Actually,
there already was one - created automatically when I first launched
Firefox after renaming the old folder. It took me over an hour, but I
have all my crucial stuff in the new Firefox - bookmarks, Zotero
citations database, extensions, and at least some of the usernames and
passwords for places that need them. I'll add the others over time. I
already migrated most of them to Chromium, so now I'll copy them back.

Unfortunately, my solution resulted in never finding the cause of the
problem. But there is a silver lining - the new Firefox seems to run
quite a bit faster. It also motivated me to do some serious
house-cleaning in my bookmarks list, which is a mess.

Many thanks to all who helped with suggestions!