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Bleachbit changed my Firefox settings
I use Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS with GNOME 3.28.2 and Firefox for Ubuntu 73.0 (64-bit) canonical 1.0. I installed BleachBit 3.2.0. The info on 'Firefox - Vacuum' in the Bleachbit window said that it would only reduce database fragmentation etc., but it changed my settings. All icons and bars etc. are larger, and it is not enough to go to Menu -> Customize -> Density -> Compact. It helps a little, but it doesn't get me back to (my) 'normal'. It also changed font sizes: Menu -> Preferences -> General -> Language and Appearance -> Fonts and Colors. The question is if there is a quick way of changing back the settings, or if I would need to restore a backup of the Firefox profile.
No, I don't know of a way to change back the settings.
I tried a set: I went to the "Fonts and Colors" preferences, set the font size to 34, closed Firefox, and then used BleachBit to vacuum Firefox. When I reopened Firefox and visited some web sites, the font size was still huge, so I could not reproduce this.
Sometimes when using BleachBit, a person is doing many things at once. Are you sure that in BleachBit or in Firefox you didn't change any Firefox settings? Normally the "vacuum" process causes no functional changes, and as far as Firefox is concerned, all the data is the same. In other words, it does not change the way the application (Firefox) functions.
Would you be willing to try the vacuum process again (and only the vacuum process) to check whether this happens again? (You could make a backup of your profile before doing this.)
Hi! Thank you for your reply. The biggest problem is that icons and the height of bars, tabs etc. are bigger now and I can't see a way of decreasing them. The way to test this would be to restore the old profile and run Bleachbit again. I will try to find time for that.
Now I have restored my Firefox profile from before I ran Bleachbit. That didn't help, so Bleachbit must have changed settings somewhere else, but where?
@HeRo002, you mean you have restored your backup, but e.g. buttons are still big ???
I did a quick web search to the prob and found e.g. this...
"In my case , a theme change yesterday caused the buttons to become much larger in Firefox and Nautilus. My arrow buttons are twice the size but happen to like the change . Some Firefox themes (not personas) have fixed button sizes if you can find one you like."
...does this fit to your case anyhow ???
Yes! But I haven't noticed any changes in Files / Nautilus. So you are saying that Firefox just happened to change appearance without asking me, the same day as I closed it and ran BleachBit... That's VERY annoying!!! Can you give me any links to people talking about that problem? Thank you!
No, seems I misunderstood the text! I'm a German and I understood by first reading, the user changed his system theme/design and that had consequences for Firefox... I made just a search for "Ubuntu Firefox big buttons" to have a look if other users have/had similar problems and why...
OK. So it still seems that the problem is in BleachBit. I would like very much to solve it, because I am missing the extra amount of information on the screen in Firefox.
This prob may be due to the fact that
...we have implemented a new global default zoom level setting.
Loaded websites don't need to be reloaded as the zoom level is applied automatically to them as well. Firefox users who want text zooming only can check the "zoom text only" box on the preferences page to enable that feature.
Firefox 73 gets an UI option to set a global zoom level
No. The problem is not websites, but Firefox bars and icons. Bars have gotten higher and icons bigger, which is quite annoying! And as I mentioned earlier, changing Menu -> Customize -> Density -> Compact only helps a little. So it still seems to be a Bleachbit problem, but not something stored in my Firefox profile folder, since restoring that didn't change anything. I have a drive image backup of the whole Ubuntu partition from just before running Bleachbit, but I would much prefer to only restore (overwrite) a few (Firefox) folders, and not the whole partition - but which folders would that be?
Reinstall Firefox and restore a profile backup or restore to a different location Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles For example, my profile folder is /home/dzmitry/.mozilla/firefox/fkkaapyq.default-1558413524520