16.04 : on each Firefox update, language pack and search engines don't keep my preferences

[Coeur Noir]

Hi,

today update manager brought a new version of Firefox, 64.

1. FR language pack is kind of lost in the process :
https://ibb.co/28bbG9t
« remove » that one and on next launch FF is in french again.

2. Google comes back as default search engine - instead of previously Qwant

3. Amazon comes back in the list of search engines, although I had previously removed it months ago

4. My prefered order of search engines get lost.

As far as I can remember I had the same « jokes » when updating FF from 62 to 63
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1791789
https://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=22020197#p22020197

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I cannot observe this issue in a 16.04 VM. I downgraded to 63.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, removed all profile information, changed my settings to Qwant as the default search engine and removed other search engines such as Amazon and Bing. I then closed firefox, upgraded to 64.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, and my settings were kept (language pack too, my default locale is fr).

Was firefox running when you installed the update? This is something I didn't test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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