Waterfox: Refresh Waterfox: the dialogue should not suggest that add-ons will be removed

[grahamperrin]

With Waterfox 53.0.3_2 on FreeBSD-CURRENT:

Refresh Waterfox

Start fresh to fix problems and restore performance.

This will:

• remove your add-ons and customisations
• restore your browser settings to their defaults

[[Cancel]] [Refresh Waterfox]

Actual result of refreshment

Extensions, user styles, plug-ins, dictionaries and languages are (loosely speaking) not removed. I love the convenience, the preservation.

An example, before and after refreshment:

Side note: the third screenshot – all pages failing to load – is symptomatic of e10s: multiprocess enabled with incompatible add-ons after refreshing waterfox 56.0.3 · Issue #380 · MrAlex94/Waterfox.

Issue (enhancement request)

Change the wording in the dialogue, to not suggest that add-ons will be removed.

[grahamperrin]

From today's Waterfox's current status …:

The Refresh button has been fixed in about:support. You will now be able to reset your profiles while keeping only your important data (same as Firefox).

To clarify: will the fix cause refreshment to remove add-ons from a Waterfox profile (same as Firefox 56.0.2 and Firefox Quantum)?

@MrAlex94 please advise – thanks.

[MrAlex94]

No it won’t remove extensions, but it may reset their preferences.

[grahamperrin]

Sane. Excellent! Thanks.

I can probably do PRs for basic issues such as this. (I'll wait until after your offline commits go online, then try to find my way around …)

[grahamperrin]

56.2.0, build 20180514223240:

That's enough for me to close this issue.

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For other issues with the two Refresh Waterfox dialogues, over to:

• UX of Refresh Waterfox · Issue #562 …