Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:57:57 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd@edvax.de, perrin@apotheon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 Message-ID: <4a618085.gC691plCKOA4Tkt9%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20090718014347.1a182ef7.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090717224837.GA52217@kokopelli.hydra> <20090718014347.1a182ef7.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> > So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without > > running the risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a 100-tab > > session, et cetera)? > > Well, I don't think those settings get altered in any way - > they do not reside in the port's directories (where it will > be installed into). To be sure, make a backup copy of your > ~/.mozilla/ directory before. I suspect the real concern is not that the upgrade itself will wreck something, but that the upgraded FF may do something odd the first time it is fired up :( One hopes that backing up ~/.mozilla would cover it.
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