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geffr
Geff
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 18 Oct, 2005 1:40 am Re: Make a new profile if you want to switch back! |
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| Casey wrote: | 
If you want to try the Firefox beta and keep the option of going back to 1.0, definitely make a new profile. 1.5 makes changes to the profile that won't allow you to go back. Among other things, 1.5's cache folder is moved out of the profile folder.
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That hasn't been my experience. I installed the beta to a new folder, but it's sharing a profile with 1.07 & there's been NO problems at all. When I go from 1.07 to the beta, it disable extensions & themes; when I go back to 1.07 it re-enables them all. Again, I've done this numerous times with no problem. The 2 versions are also sharing the same cache in the same profile on my Win 98SE machine.
Geff R
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hansh
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| 19 Oct, 2005 1:35 am |
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Thanks for all your reply's
Have a nice day,
Hansh
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casey1992
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| 19 Oct, 2005 11:28 am |
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| geffr wrote: | | Casey wrote: |
If you want to try the Firefox beta and keep the option of going back to 1.0, definitely make a new profile. 1.5 makes changes to the profile that won't allow you to go back. Among other things, 1.5's cache folder is moved out of the profile folder.
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That hasn't been my experience. I installed the beta to a new folder, but it's sharing a profile with 1.07 & there's been NO problems at all. When I go from 1.07 to the beta, it disable extensions & themes; when I go back to 1.07 it re-enables them all. Again, I've done this numerous times with no problem. The 2 versions are also sharing the same cache in the same profile on my Win 98SE machine.
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I've never tried moving back and forth between the same profile due to quite a number of warnings I've seen on the MozillaZine Forums . None of those warnings were very specific, though.
With your information, I'll qualify my previous statement and suggest that if one wants to try moving back and forth between Firefox versions, s/he should make a backup of the profile first.
I see at least a couple of new folders are created in 1.5's profile. One keeps a number of bookmark file backups. Another change is that new search plugins are installed to the profile folder rather than the application folder. From my experience, anyway, the new searchplugins folder doesn't appear until you've actually installed one. Maybe Firefox 1.0.7 is capable of ignoring these new folders. (Or maybe you haven't installed any search plugins under 1.5?)
Maybe the developers didn't bother to move the cache on Windows 98, being that it's an older operating system. Mac OS X, for instance, has a proper home for all caches: ~Library/Caches. It's nice to see the Firefox caches moved there, as that's where just about every other cache goes. Moving the cache from the profile also saves the bother of deleting it before making a profile backup.
I wrote earlier that I expected to switch to 1.5 before the final release comes out. I've since found that one thing prevents me from doing this. Accessing bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar frequently causes Firefox to hang. That's a deal-breaker at this point for me.
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geffr
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| 20 Oct, 2005 12:15 am |
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| Casey wrote: | With your information, I'll qualify my previous statement and suggest that if one wants to try moving back and forth between Firefox versions, s/he should make a backup of the profile first.
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100% agreed, I would never try something like that without doing a profile back up first. I should have made that clear!
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hansh
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| 02 Jan, 2006 4:43 am |
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Thanks for you opinion..and all a happy new year.
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