Originally posted by: drag
Originally posted by: oog
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
should i uninstall the old FireFox or just install the new one over it?
installed new one over the old one and everything seems fine... every setting stayed.
If you read the installation notes on the site, it says to uninstall the old one. Upgrades are not supported. That doesn't mean it doesn't work, but they recommend the uninstall.
Also you can back up your bookmarks and other stuff, too.
But all I care about personally is bookmarks.
The bookmarks are stored inside a bookmarks.html file underneath your user preferences.
you can find the location of them here(I think that pheonix is the older name, the pathnames use firefox instead.
If you want you can get realy into seriously modifying the look and actions of your browser if you realy get into it.
But anyways, find the bookmarks.html file, copy it to a floppy or a save folder or whatever. Now it's backuped up. Then go ahead and uninstall everything and then when your finished find your preferences folder again and copy back your bookmarks.html file to about the same place you originally got it from.
Whala! your bookmarks are back. Also you can do this to edit it and then also copy your bookmarks to bunches of different computers you may use.