Hello Mark, On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:48:34AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > To temporarily fix these problems while retaining most of your user > data, one option is to press the "Refresh IceCat…" button in > <about:support>. Choosing this option will reset all your preferences > and addons to the IceCat defaults, but allows you to preserve the rest > of your data, including your bookmarks, browser history, cookies, saved > passwords, and your open tabs.
thanks for this (very hidden) work-around. I confirm that it has worked very well for me. And I would just like to mention a (not problematic) caveat: "reset your addons" also includes removing additional add-ons installed by the user. > A proper fix will likely involve modifying the relevant code in IceCat > to either avoid storing the full file names in extensions.json, or else > to detect them on startup and automatically "refresh" them as needed. So refreshing in the above sense should not be done without asking the user first. Andreas
