Upgrades and Flash

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>
> Subject: Re: Upgrades and Flash
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 12:35 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >> I doubt it.  I would gradually reconstruct the new
> profile (e.g.
> >> copy settings files, reinstall extensions, one by
> one) in order to
> >> get the desired functionality without breaking
> YouTube again.
> >> 
> >> Matt Flaschen
> >> 
> >> 
> > Ok, your point taken about reconfiguring. Only issue I
> have with what
> > you would do, ie. reconstruct, is that it is a long
> and tedious job
> > which I have once tried and gave up on. Perhaps, an
> expert would have
> > less trouble.
> 
> I agree it's somewhat tedious (how tedious depends how
> much the profile
> has changed from default), but it's not difficult.
> 
> > I believe you said previously that moving ~/.mozilla,
> if it worked,
> > meant that it was a system wide issue which I
> interpret that it could
> > be elsewhere in the OS.
> 
> No, I didn't say that, and it's incorrect.  The
> fact that moving
> ~/.mozilla worked indicates the problem was specific to the
> old profile.
>  Clearly, the new profile works and the old doesn't. 
> Thus, the only
> task is the figure out what in the old profile was causing
> the problem.
>  That way the OP can get back as many features of the old
> profile as
> possible.
> 
> Matt Flaschen
> 
Sorry I misread your reply on that point. Thanks for clearing it up for me.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net