BIll Spikowski wrote:
W3BNR wrote:
On 9/7/2011 1:24 PM dsavitsk submitted the following:
It is for me. Been using SM since early 1.x days -- 5 years or so
now. A while back, I had "upgraded" to 2.2 but lost functionality
(<a
href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/
browse_thread/thread/d3ce81bc8e4b3db6/f28f8e13c0361f1d">center
button scrolling with a Thinkpad and the ability to open new tabs
easily</a>) so I re-downgraded. Today, I received dire warnings
that upgrading to 2.3.3 was essential for security reasons. I
figured that maybe some of these issues had been resolved, and that
maybe security trumps inconvenience. But, nope, nothing's fixed.
And, as a last FU, all of my bookmarks got deleted by the upgrade.
Thanks!
What am I doing incorrectly? I've updated with each release from
1.1.15pre to 2.3.3 without a problem except for a few addons that
need tweeking to their install.rdf file (not a SM problem - take it
up with the add-on maker). I must be doing something wrong. What is
it?
You are fortunate!
For many of us, the update from 1.1.n to 2.n was treacherous.
Happily, all updates from there on out have been painless, and I'd never go
back....
My experience has been that the vast majortiy of updates from 1.0 to
2.3.3 have been trouble free or involved very minor issues that were
easily solved.
I always keep a very recent backup of my SeaMonkey profile, just in case
some unforeseen issue arises. I also have an external hard drive for
cloning my main hard drive. This drive is bootable. Also I use Time
Machine to back up all my files and apps. If I run into any problems
upgrading SeaMonkey, such as losing all my bookmarks, I can easily
restore them. If I need to revert to an older version of SeaMonkey, if
there is something that fails to work as advertised or is buggy, then I
can use time machine to revert to an earlier SeaMonkey version.
Fortunately my problems with SeaMonkey have not been so bad that I have
had to restore my profile or revert to an earlier SeaMonkey version.
Before I update SeaMonkey I always make sure I have a recent backup of
both the current SeaMonkey version AND my SeaMonkey profile (recent
copy) before I update just in case something happens.
Then again I may have not had too many serious issues with SeaMonkey
because I am using a Mac with 10.6.x ;)--nah that's not it. Its likely
due to my policy of always having a recent backup available in case I
run into trouble.
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