Response by Espen H
Developer response
posted 8 years agoYeah, sorry about that. RESTED just went from 0.x to 1.0, and is now considered stable. i.e. there will be no breaking changes going forward.
The reason this happened was because the extension was upgraded from a Firefox extension to a WebExtension, and also replaced the storage backend. Mozilla does not currently offer any way to prevent automatic upgrades, even if the version number was to go from 0.0.1 to 20.0.0. On the plus side, the problems many people have seen with the storage backend should now be resolved, so it should be more stable in the future.
If you wish to recover your old collections, it may be possible to go into the old versions of RESTED (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rested/versions) and download version 0.9.1 and see if your collections are still there. If they are, you can export your collections and import them to the new version.
The reason this happened was because the extension was upgraded from a Firefox extension to a WebExtension, and also replaced the storage backend. Mozilla does not currently offer any way to prevent automatic upgrades, even if the version number was to go from 0.0.1 to 20.0.0. On the plus side, the problems many people have seen with the storage backend should now be resolved, so it should be more stable in the future.
If you wish to recover your old collections, it may be possible to go into the old versions of RESTED (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rested/versions) and download version 0.9.1 and see if your collections are still there. If they are, you can export your collections and import them to the new version.