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 > > I cant at the moment. Not sleeping very well. Got some health problems so keeping me awake with the new meds and change from old ones, its getting on my nerves a bit, have hardly had any sleep at all this week.
You lucky thing being in Canada. I would love to go there. Maybe one day. :) John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
