Feel free to watch Louis Rossmann’s video through here.
Done. Thank you for giving me another reason to ditch Firefox for Librewolf, Louis. A few months ago, Firefox decided it was a good idea to reset my default user profile with an automatic update, which took place soon after I went to bed. I woke up the next day terrified, then 30 minutes later, I realized the auto update switched the default installation from %AppData% back to %ProgramFiles%, and so my default profile didn’t load automatically anymore. It was a bit traumatic, because when stuff like this happens, you can’t help but assume the worst, so obviously, thinking my default profile still existed with all my data intact wasn’t the first thing that came to mind. What’s ironic is that, as a system administrator, I manage 3 servers (1 local and 2 VPS), and yet with all the auto-updates set up for multiple WordPress sites, this incident with Firefox was the first time I ever felt disappointed by an automatic update, note that, with all the clients I’ve worked with over the years, every single of one of them have automatic updates disabled on their WP sites, and then some people wonder why their site throws a fatal error when they finally decide to update from v1.0 to v6.9, but I digress.
Man, the older I get, the more I realize that some things don’t even deserve a first chance, let alone a second one. Now that I’m watching this video, I realize that I should’ve done this the second I backed up the user profile I thought I had lost for good; a profile riddled with extensions, and custom scripts that I’ve built over the years to make browsing as fluid, and intuitive as can be.
And I agree with the last part; something similar was mentioned in Bullshit Jobs. Getting paid for doing nothing is like being immortal; you lose the drive to wanna be good at anything, especially if it’s something that can benefit others.