firefox upgrade question

[greybeard]

I'm still using Libranet 3.0 & have only recently changed my sources list from the original. this is my new sources list:

deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
#deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main


I am still using the version of firefox from the install disks (1,0,2) when I do an "apt-get upgrade" it hasn't upgraded firefox & I (finally) figured out that it's because of the fact that the old version is actually "mozilla-firefox" & they have since changed the package name to "firefox" (at least thats how I understand the situation) so I tried "apt-get install firefox" & get this:

[root@libranet:/home/waynk]# apt-get install firefox firefox-gnome-support
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
xprint
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox firefox-gnome-support
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 8323kB of archives.
After unpacking 3576kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

That seems ok to me, but my question is, when "mozilla-firefox" is removed will I lose all my bookmarks etc. or will this simply upgrade to a different version & retain the bookmarks etc. if i'll lose the bookmarks I will want to figure out how to save them & get them back into the new "firefox"

thanks for any advice...

greybeard

[benjaminq]

No problem, you bookmarks and settings are stored in /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/...

I would simply use the packages that are provided by mozilla directly and install in into /opt. That way you can also use the incremental upgrade option of Firefox (provided that you gave yourself the proper rights for the /opt/mozilla directory).

But in general the new installation, be it from Mozilla or from the Etch repository will just most probably take over your settings right from the start. I'd recommend nevertheless to rename your ~/.mozilla/firefox settings, since the switch from 1.0.x to 1.5.x might cause extension-woes.

Hope it helps.

BEnjamin

[greybeard]

Thanks benjamin, that pretty much tells me what I need to know. The only question I have is when you say rename "~/.mozilla/firefox settings" do you mean just rename the file " ~/.mozilla/firefox" ? or something else in that file pertaining to "settings" Pardon my slowness...LOL...

Thanks again

greybeard

[benjaminq]

I used to just compress the old ~/mozilla/firefox into an archive, delete the original, install the new FF, compress the new ~/mozilla/firefox, delete the original, decompress the old one and look if everythings is OK. If yes, we're done, if not one can revert to the freshly gzipped new settings and replace just the file named "bookmarks.html".

If it is only for the bookmarks, you can export them in FF 1.0.7 and reimport them into 1.5 ...

BEnjamin

[greybeard]

ok thanks again BEnjamin, it's really just the bookmarks I need to worry about. Now it's just the pain of the big download with this slow dialup...LOL...

greybeard

[greybeard]

I got my new firefox 1.5 with apt-get & everything is as it should be...thx again BEnjamin...

greybeard

[benjaminq]

You're welcome!

Benjamin