Your settings should have been in your home directory (~/.firefox), not
in the app install directory. You shouldn't need to bring up the old app
to get any settings (extensions might be a different matter?)
--ronan
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>
>> Spake ronan on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 02:11PM -0400:
>>> Perhaps you have two different versions of FireFox installed? Apt might
>>> have installed v2.0 in /opt
>> Debian-style packages do not use /opt, last time I read the policy
>> manual.
>
> Great, thanks, that's the magic word. I had (erroneously) assumed the
> bigger one was later. What I did:
>
> As root:
> cd /opt
> mv firefox firefox.old
>
> As me:
> /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu
> (which I'll rename to "firefox")
>
> and it came up. I'll have to bring up 1.5 again to transcribe all open
> windows' URLs into something, because 2.0 came up with just the start
> page.
>
> ...
>
> Crap, running 2.0 deleted them. Oh well, that's what backups are for.
>
> root@pc:~# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp -o ro
> root@pc:~# cp -r /mnt/temp/eben/.mozilla/firefox ~eben/.mozilla/
> root@pc:~# umount /dev/hdb1
>
> Muhahaha...
>
> ...
>
> Wow, 31 windows (11 of which came up offscreen) with a total of 118
> tabs. I think I might have a problem.
>
> Also, when I bring up FF (either version) or "Deluge-torrent", I get
>
> (Gecko:32087): gnome-vfs-modules-WARNING **: Could not initialize inotify
>
> (well, not exactly that for Deluge). What do I need to install to make
> it happy? And will doing so benefit me in any way besides making the
> message go away?
>
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