On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, ronan wrote:
>> 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.
> 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?)
They were, for the most part. FF kept which sites were (not) allowed to set
cookies, and most other prefs. It _didn't_ keep the list of open tabs, and
what's worse, wiped it out so when I re-ran 1.5 it wasn't there. I had to
restore it from backup, then transcribe all 118 of them, and re-open most of
them in 2.0. It also didn't keep the list of which sites were allowed to
use Javascript. I'll cut it some slack, as the things it didn't keep were
managed by Extensions^WAdd-ons.
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