The banner at bottom of browser asking to "refresh"?

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The banner at bottom of browser asking to "refresh"?

Unread post by Pallid Planetoid » 2025-06-06, 14:23

Not knowing what saying "Yes" does in response to the banner at the bottom of the browser (asking if I'd like to "refresh" browser) - I did not reply to it.

What does saying "Yes" to the banner to "refresh" the browser actually do?

I can't find anywhere there is an "option" to do this (after the fact of ignoring the request)....

I wasn't able to find out anything on this anywhere as well (but of course I probably wasn't thorough enough - my apologies if that's the case).

Thanks in advance :)
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Re: The banner at bottom of browser asking to "refresh"?

Unread post by moonbat » 2025-06-07, 00:39

Can you post a screenshot? maybe refresh refers to updating the browser, but the updater doesn't show up in the way you describe AFAIK.
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Re: The banner at bottom of browser asking to "refresh"?

Unread post by Pallid Planetoid » 2025-06-07, 19:14

Some of what was said in the (alert) banner (at the bottom of the browser) was about my not using the browser for a long time and was asking if I wanted to "refresh" the browser to bring it more up to date (as I recall - something to that effect as far as I can remember).

Once ignored (as I did - as I had no idea what is entailed by doing a "refresh") then the banner does not return.

I should have taken a screen-shot - I guess the only way to repeat this (to be able to provide a screen-shot) would be to not use Basilisk for a couple of months or so... then presumably the banner would return...
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Re: The banner at bottom of browser asking to "refresh"?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2025-06-07, 23:24

I think that's a leftover from Firefox which would trigger a "reset" of the active profile using the profile migration, basically Mozilla's way of avoiding potential issues with old profiles in their constant release churn.
So, it would trigger a profile reset, basically migrating across existing bookmarks, site data and passwords but removing everything else (IIRC).
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Re: The banner at bottom of browser asking to "refresh"?

Unread post by Pallid Planetoid » 2025-06-10, 07:31

^ Thanks for the heads-up - certainly not something I'd want to do - so I'm sure glad I declined (i.e. ignored) the prompt (It'd be nice to get an "i" button or something to provide users with more info on that banner in this case :idea:).
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Re: The banner at bottom of browser asking to "refresh"?

Unread post by Basilisk-Dev » 2025-06-10, 16:03

I might end up just removing this. I can't really think of a solid reason anyone should use this functionality, I have never used this feature even on Firefox.
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