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Re:Firefox 5 Beta is available for download by lurker19 on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @11:38AM (#2580239)
Not your fault, but that is a risk of using a Beta (before Google hijacked the term to mean "Upgrades are Planned").

Bugs like what you saw are flagged as high-importance "data loss" bugs, and FF has gotten better about avoiding those, even in pre-release builds, since the bad old days of accidentally deleting non-FF data from your home folder.

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Re:Firefox 5 Beta is available for download by lukeschlather on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @02:51PM (#2581054)
I've used the same profile on my primary computer for something like 5 years, across a migration from Windows to Ubuntu, and a few times when I've had too much time on my hands and ran minefield/betas for a month now and again.

They were unstable, but I never corrupted my profile.

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