Upgrading to Firefox 2

[TooNice]

Are there anything special to look out for when upgrading from FireFox 1.5 to 2.0? Can I cleanly transfer my bookmarks/non plug-in related settings? And how do I cleanly remove 1.5?

[muddyfox470]

Ok its actually so easy to do it all and all you have to do is copy and paste a folder and change a line of text in a small text document.

Ill find the webpage for you...

Ian

[excalibur2]

Are there anything special to look out for when upgrading from FireFox 1.5 to 2.0? Can I cleanly transfer my bookmarks/non plug-in related settings? And how do I cleanly remove 1.5?

Strange I just clicked on "check for updates" on my ver 1.5, to give you an answer, and it said "no new updates available". Anyway went to mozilla and installed ver 2 and it at least kept all my links, dunno about bookmarks as I use Opera most of the time.

[muddyfox470]

Hope this helps:

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache...k&ct=clnk&cd=7

I can't find the one I used, but basically you want to to do the following:

Go to C:\Documents and Settings\[Your username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

You will see a folder called a funny name (8 characters I think?)
Copy that and paste to your desktop just as a temporary copy.

Install Mozilla 2.0

Once installed go to:

C:\Documents and Settings\[Your Username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox and open the file called profiles.ini with notepad (right click and open with...)

You will see a file like this:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/pk8qssn3.default

Change it to :

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/Your profile name (the name of the folder you saved to your desktop.default

Copy that folder to the:
Go to C:\Documents and Settings\[Your username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles Directory

Open Firefox, and it should all be as it was before, albeit it firefox 2

Ian