[nflug] firefox update

[Joe]

Related issue:
Can someone tell me how to properly install Firefox and Thunderbird in 
root land (I currently have them installed in my personal user 
directory) and then how to do the updates for plugins, etc.  I'm on 
Mandrake 9.1 and install from tarballs.  Haven't had much luck with 
rpm's, my distro is too old.

TIA

Joe

Jonathan Skulski wrote:
> Here's a link the to Ubuntu Wiki page about how to upgrade (from a
> package) to a newer version of firefox. It walks you through backing
> up different settings and restoring plugins and all that nifty stuff.
>
> In short:
>  cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default
>  mkdir ~/Desktop/ffsettings
>  cp bookmarks.html cert8.db cookies.txt formhistory.dat key3.db
> signons.txt history.dat  mimeTypes.rdf ~/Desktop/ffsettings
>
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion
>
>
> jsk
>
> On 4/18/06, Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
>   
>> how are you installing firefox to begin with, are you using what's
>> distributed with the distro or are you getting it from mozilla.com? if
>> you're getting it from mozilla.com it's a tarball so all you have to do
>> is untar it over the existing installation. if you installed from an rpm
>> then just upgrade it, rpm -Uv.
>>
>>
>> anthonyriga wrote:
>>     
>>> What is the best way to update Firefox? I have done
>>> this in the past and always had trouble reconfiguring
>>> plugins. Is ther a simple way where is just updates
>>> the files? Im taking more conservative approach after
>>> crashing my box upgrading from Fedora 4 to 5. I
>>> noticed too when im looged in as root I can click on
>>> the help check for updates in Firefox and it searches
>>> but dosent find any. When loged on as myself the check
>>> updates is disabled. Its enabled to chek for updates
>>> in my preferences. I wish Firefox updated easier on
>>> Linux. I hate to say it but it never fails on
>>> winblows.
>>>
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