[ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

[John Matthews]

Daniel Drummond wrote:
> John Matthews wrote:
>   
>> Hi, thank you for the information.
>>
>> I was just wondering, how do I get it to work, and become my default 
>> browser so that I dont have both, and I dont loose my profile info?
>>
>> John.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it accomplished it for me.
>
> open a terminal and type the following commands
>
> cd /usr/bin
> ls -l firefox
>
> you should see that the firefox file is a link to firefox-3.0
>
> then type
>
> sudo rm firefox
> sudo ln -s firefox-3.5 firefox
>
> That will update it so that menu entries will run firefox 3.5 and it 
> should run by default.  However if there are any extensions you rely on, 
> until they have been updated to work with firefox3.5 you won't be able 
> to use them. 
>
> As I said earlier my bookmarks followed me, so I'm not sure why yours 
> didn't.
>
> I did some checking, and this worked on my machine.
>
> Quit all firefox's before starting.
> In your home directory there is a folder called .mozilla  (In the file 
> manager this can be shown by pressing Ctrl-H).  In this directory there 
> should be a "firefox" and "firefox-3.5" directory.  Rename "firefox-3.5" 
> to "firefox-3.5.old", and make a copy of the "firefox" directory, and 
> rename the copy to "firefox-3.5".
>
> In commands:
>
> cd ~/.mozilla
> mv firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5.old
> cp -r firefox firefox-3.5
>
> Then run Firefox, and hopefully all should be well, with all your 
> bookmarks intact.
>
> Dan
>
> ps.  Do you not sleep?  I'm currently in Canada visiting my parents 
> which is why I'm up at this ungodly hour
>
>   
Thank you, I will give it a try.

It looks a bit complicated, so I just hope I get it right.

John.