Linux Firefox 67 conflit with compatibllity.ini on safe mode

[Markco]

Bug the compatibility.ini file to safe mode is changed of :

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[Compatibility]
lastVersion=67.0.1_20190529130856/20190529130856

to:

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[Compatibility] 
LastVersion=Safe Mode

Changing to "Safe Mode", this makes the:

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Using an older version of Firefox can corrupt bookmarks and browsing history already saved to an existing Firefox profile. To protect your information, create a new profile for this installation of Firefox.

dialog appear by restarting in normal mode and loop the bug, even creating a new profile.

Delete the compatibility.ini file before restarting in normal mode or edit the compatibility.ini file empty it and save it and put the file readonly

[therube]

(I'm on 69.)


Is what you posted for compatibility.in complete?

I see more, like:

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[Compatibility]
LastVersion=69.0a1_20190607220156/20190607220156
LastOSABI=WINNT_x86_64-msvc
LastPlatformDir=C:\WLIB\FIREFOX\FIREFOX
LastAppDir=C:\WLIB\FIREFOX\FIREFOX\browser

Restarting in Safe Mode, I'm not seeing any change to LastVersion= ?

So not quite sure what you're doing, how you're doing, to get the results you're seeing?

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Profiles, profiles.ini, compatibility.ini, & all associated, are a cesspool of bugs, that no one understands what is expected or what is to be expected.

So what you are seeing is expected.
You might say, this is the new norm .

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Also note the, --allow-downgrade command-line switch.

[Markco]

Beta and Nightly are not affected by this bug, it's only on the stable version 67.0.1

[Markco]

The problem does not appear in version 67.0.2.

[dickvl]

You aren't sharing this profile between other Firefox versions or even a different OS (Windows) ?

[therube]

There was a bug (go figure) on the Linux end, now fixed in 67.0.2.

"Starting in safe mode on Linux or macOS causes Firefox to think on the subsequent launch that the profile is too recent to be used with this version of Firefox (Bug 1556612)"

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/6 ... easenotes/