It’s one thing to notice that people don’t really see the nice red arrow on the top right corner of Firefox stating a critical update, but it’s something completely different to see people noticing it and then Mozilla fuck up. Yes, ladies and gents, I am saying that Mozilla screwed up. Though the screw up might not entirely be their fault, but it’s still happening.

What they need is a better migration for newer updates. People (including me) who updated from an older version of Firefox have been noticing some very eratic behaviours. Stop laughing, I’m serious. The erratic behaviour has nothing to do with the new release by itself. It’s the migration. So how do you get the latest and the greatest and still avoid all this?

The simple way is to just completely eradicate any trace of Firefox from your computer and start a new. New profile and everything. Which also means that you will need to set everything up from scratch.

The longer way is the following and it garuntees that you don’t have to set everything back up. So are you ready for this? You think you can handle this one? Alright, here we go.

1. Get Bookmark Backup extension for Firefox before you even update it.
2. Configure the extension to your liking and then restart Firefox.
3. Get the new Firefox.
4. Uninstall the existing one.
5. Delete the existing profiles for Firefox. (In Windows, it’s located at Documents and Settings \%username% \Application Data \Mozilla \Firefox.)
6. Install the new Firefox, and start it once.
7. Exit Firefox, and copy the backed up settings to your new profile.

And you’re done. Stupid? Useless? Yes I know.