[WEB4LIB] Re: Firefox 0.9 hits the street--or why you should swit

[Binkley, Peter]

There's an upgrade tutorial in the Mozillazine forums that worked for me.
The forums are down at the moment but you can get it in the Google cache: 

http://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+upgrade+tutorial&sourceid=firefox&sta
rt=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Click the cache link on the first hit.

Or, the steps are:

[quote]

Step 1: Backup your profile.
Click on Start -> Run. Enter %APPDATA%
This should open up windows explorer to "C:\Documents and
Settings\xxx\Application Data"
Click on Tools -> Folder Options, and ensure you can view hidden folders
Your profile is in the 'phoenix' directory.

Step 2: Uninstall Firefox 0.8
Important! Do not skip this step
Click on Start -> Control Panel -> Add / Remove Program. Remove firefox 0.8
If you installed manually, delete the folder containing firefox.exe

Step 3: Install Firefox 0.9
Double click the installer.
Choose default settings

Step 4:Import settings from Firefox 0.8
If firefox was your default browser, your settings will be auto-imported.
If not, you need to copy files from your old profile to the new one.

bookmarks.html // bookmarks
user.js and prefs.js // preferences
cookies.text and cookperm.txt (or hostperm.1) // cookies
signon.txt and key3.db // passwords

Your new profile is at %APPDATA%/mozilla/firefox

[end of quote]


Peter

Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
Information Technology Services
4-30 Cameron Library
University of Alberta Libraries
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J8
Phone: (780) 492-3743
Fax: (780) 492-9243
e-mail: peter.binkley at ualberta.ca


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abramson, Alicia [mailto:aabramson at ci.berkeley.ca.us] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 03:20 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Firefox 0.9 hits the street--or why 
> you should swit
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, one of the things Firefox developers didn't 
> concentrate on is migrating bookmarks, extensions & other 
> profile data from version 0.8! Found this out the hard way, 
> though as long as you uninstall 0.9 and reinstall 0.8, 
> everything comes back.  I'm waiting for them to address this 
> problem before re-upgrading.
> 
> Other than that, I think Firefox is a far superior browser to 
> IE (for Windows
> shops) and will be working on migrating our library over the 
> next several months.  If anyone needs a reason to dump IE 
> now, here are a few resources to take a look at [I was 
> recently hit at home with Look2Me adware and that has pretty 
> much driven me over the edge with IE!]:
> 
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/249

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=117316298&eid=-255

http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/archives/20040615_why_you_should_dump_i
nternet_explorer.phtml

Alicia Abramson


Alicia Abramson
Manager, Information Technology
Berkeley Public Library
2090 Kittredge St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
510-981-6131
aabramson at ci.berkeley.ca.us

>>> Thomas Dowling 06/15/04 07:41AM >>>
For your downloading, uninstalling, and reinstalling pleasure, Mozilla 
has released Firefox 0.9.  A big emphasis in this release is migrating 
IE data, including favorites, passwords, cookies, etc.

Download:
<http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/>

Release notes: <http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/>


Make sure to get the Link toolbar extension too :-)
<http://cdn.mozdev.org/linkToolbar/>


-- 
Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network tdowling at ohiolink.edu