Pete Theisen wrote: > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >> If I do a "dir" of /home/leland/.mozilla/firefox/82a42b0y.default on my >> system, I see a >> directory named chrome. I think this is where firefox store the setting for >> my >> extensions. I haven't upgraded to the latest version of firefox, so I don't >> know if I've >> have an extension in /home/leland/.mozilla/firefox/82a42b0y.default/chrome >> that the >> upgraded version of fixfoxe can't handle or not. Anyway, change this chrome >> directory to >> chrome.backup and try booting firefox. > > Hi Leland! > > I can find the alphanumeric directory and there is a subdirectory called > extensions under it. But no chrome file in there. Nothing in there, in fact.
I'm talking about a directory similar to my /home/leland/.moxilla/firefox/82a42b0y.default directory. The name Firefox hashed out for my directory was 82a42b0y.default . Each directory installed would have its own .default part of the directory name, but Firefox would hash out a different alpha numeric code preceding the .default for everybody; because, this directory could hold a lot of personal and sensitive information like passwords to access various web sites for example. I change the name of the directory I provided in this post to keep the real name of my .default directory secret. Firefox is very good about maintaining forward and backward compatibility, but it's not perfect. Whenever I upgrade to the latest version of Fedora, I always do a mirror image backup of the current install. Once the new version of Fedora is installed, I mount the hard drive with the mirror image of the old install and copy the .firefox and .thunderbird directories to my new home directory. The next time I start firefox and thunderbird in the new Fedora, they will have all the old setting, bookmarks, passwords, everything. I've never had a problem with Firefox not be forward and backward compatible, and its just that easy. There are many people that write Firefox extensions and addon, so if there are problems, it may be up to them to maintain of there work with the latest release of Firefox. Regards, LelandJ Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
