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From: Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] migrating firefox 1.5 - issues should I be aware?
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:44:38
Message-Id: 342e1090606030832j49db5fbcn389dbf7901ca810e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] migrating firefox 1.5 - issues should I be aware? by "b.n."
1 On 6/3/06, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I'm gonna quite tired of the infinite amount of time Firefox 1.5.x is
4 > waiting in the ~x86 limbo...
5
6 I was too, so, I tried it...
7
8 >
9 > But since I trust my developers I know I'm risking, so: I'd like to
10 > know: which issues do I risk in migrating from 1.0.8 to 1.5? I don't
11 > talk that much of 1.5 specific bugs (I checked bugzilla but if you can
12 > point me at some serious issue, tell me), but of issues in the migration
13 > (bookmarks, settings, plugins,etc.).
14 >
15
16 You're not really in danger, as fire-eyes suggested, keep a backup of
17 your profile and stuff and generate a quickpkg of your current
18 version, just in case.
19
20 > And expecially, if I find 1.5 bugs expecially annoying and I wanna come
21 > back to 1.0.8, are there known problems?
22
23 Not if you backup your configuration and have a binpackage of your old
24 version... You simply "emerge -C mozilla-firefox<version> && emerge -K
25 mozilla-firefox-<old_version>".
26
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28 Daniel da Veiga
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