Firefox 4 released

Posted Mar 23, 2011 4:41 UTC (Wed) by yhager (guest, #50165)
In reply to: Firefox 4 released by armijn
Parent article: Firefox 4 released

It is usually advised to create a new profile for experimenting with new versions of Firefox. Only when you are certain you are not planning to go back, use your normal profile.

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Firefox 4 released

Posted Mar 23, 2011 10:50 UTC (Wed) by ebirdie (guest, #512) [Link]

Or keep backups of profiles before jumping to new versions. I had no problems with profiles during FF4 development phase. I started using FF4b2 and since then used 3.6 and 3.5 in parallel. Main usage of FF4 has been on OS X 10.6.x, however, but copied my profile to Debian Lenny and later Squeeze desktop occationally. Can't live long without my up-to-date profile. Havent experienced nothing like the above with FF.

My take on the cause of the problem are: plugins (FF4 invaliated many plugins, which was reason for my jumping between FF3 and FF4), graphics toolbox.