For those who haven't upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy Heron (or "Hungry Hippo", as Brad Rodriguez puts it, http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/news.php) yet, this may save you some grief.
HH comes with Firefox 3.0 Beta 5. First off, why in the name of Murphy did they put a beta on HH (however you expand the acronym)? Given Ubuntu's reputation for stability, isn't that rather silly? The upgrade will stomp on your existing FF 2.x installation. I used the Alternate CD, and it gave me no option here. I also have a number of extensions, two of which I use daily for work. Those two are broken on 3.x, mozex and gmail notifier. I use both a lot. Also, 3.0 mungs your extensions such that they are broken if you downgrade to 2.0.0.14. I believe the workaround is: Do *NOT* launch FF 3.0. Immediately go to Synaptic and search on FF. Install those FF 2.0 packages that are analogous to those FF 3 packages already on the system. Then, in a separate operation, remove the 3.0 packages. This should leave your .mozilla directory intact. Then make a symlink so that program launchers can find it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# which firefox-2 /usr/bin/firefox-2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cd /usr/bin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin# ln -s firefox-2 firefox [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin# Note that I haven't tested this yet. If you've already run FF 3.0, you may need to re-install your add-ons. One thing you can do, rather drastic, is shut down FF, and run: find ~/.mozilla -iname extension* | xargs rm -r and start re-installing. That line will wipe out all your extensions. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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