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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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