Question: Is it normal that all settings (bookmarks/search engines etc.) are lost after update to version 10?

[mark0100]

I updated to version 10 yesterday on Ubuntu 20.04 and had problems with the signing key.
I installed the patched torbrowser-launcher (see #491) and also had the version check problem (see #498), so now i start the new 10 browser with:
~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser --verbose

It starts fine this way but i noticed that all my bookmarks and added search engines (and probably some more settings) are gone.
Is this expected behaviour or does it have to do with the way i start the browser now?

[AsciiWolf]

Probably related to the #498 issue. torbrowser-launcher fails to detect the correct Tor Browser version, downloads and extracts the 10.0 tarball and probably wipes the old settings.

Anyway, I recommend you fixing torbrowser-launcher using patch from #499 instead of running Tor Browser directly.

[AsciiWolf]

By the way, I am working on a torbrowser-launcher SRU for Ubuntu 20.04. I will update it to include the version comparison patch after it is in Debian. If this SRU will be accepted/sponsored, torbrowser-launcher will work out-of-box on Ubuntu 20.04.

[mark0100]

@AsciiWolf:
Ok that's probably it because the launcher said it was a new installation which struck me as odd.

How do i install the patched launcher from #499? With flatpak (as mentioned in #10)?? i.e.:
flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/27200/com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher.flatpakref

[AsciiWolf]

The Flatpak has already been updated to include the fix. ;-)

[dmknght]

I think this problem comes from Firefox backend: they changed the profile management functions so everything was lost.

[mark0100]

@AsciiWolf: It turns out that installing the patched launcher from #499 with flatpak has a dependency on the complete kde environment, but i am on Gnome. Installing kde is a bit too much clutter for me so i think i wait for the launcher to become available here i.e. install it with:

wget -v 'https://github.com/sysrqb/torbrowser-launcher/raw/develop/share/torbrowser-launcher/tor-browser-developers.asc'
sudo mv ~/tor-browser-developers.asc /usr/share/torbrowser-launcher/ ; torbrowser-launcher ; echo "DONE"