Mircea Romantan wrote: > > Joseph N. wrote: > >> I have a question about procedures at the Mozilla Galactic >> Headquarters. Are all downloads of a single milestone release the >> same build, i.e., is a download on day one of its availability the >> same build as a download two months later (assuming a bunch of nightly >> builds have been created in the meanwhile)? After some bad luck with >> one nightly, I've stuck with the milestone, but my 0.9.5 is an early >> build, and I'm wondering whether I should d/l a newer one, if a newer, >> non-nightly, is even available.... (I don't want to uninstall, d/l, >> and reinstall just for the experiment.) Any comments? >> > > An uninstall of the old version, install of a new and back forth > wouldn't take you more than 5 minutes tops. > Just follow the uninstall guidelines and you're safe. > Even better, your profile doesn't get zapped of the face of your > hard-disk during these processes. > >
I recommend just dnld'g all 10.2 megs of the tar.gz, that way, all you need to do to try a new build is dnld/tar -zxf it, then run. You can check it out, and if it's ok, rename your exiting moz directory (I rename mine something like mozilla1026 so I know what date they're from) and move the new one in. Also, if you have plugins, just cp -R * them from the old moz to the new moz, lanch as root to register them and you're done. Again, if something is wrong with the new moz, simply rename it's dir, then rename the old dir back to mozilla, and you're back in a flash. P
