Minimal

Following installation, it’s time to bite the bullet and get all of my preferences, extensions and so forth copied across from Firebird to Firefox. The first concern I have is that I don’t know what preferences I set in Firebird and which I left at the default values. The second concern is that I’m not 100% sure where I got my preferred extensions from and I get the feeling some are easier to Google for than others. Whatever, let’s dive in.

Automatically copying settings across?

First things first, is there a tool/feature to copy stuff across from Firebird for me? The Import� command looked promising, but offered only to import settings from Internet Explorer. Wonderful - it can import a rival’s preferences, but it can’t manage its own. After a bit more digging, it appears there’s no way built into the software to copy an old version’s settings. Boo.

Maybe Google had the answer. In total, I spent about an hour searching for information on how to avoid the pain of reinstalling extensions, reinstalling a theme, copying preferences and re-laying-out toolbars, but all I found was other people in the same predicament. Hey ho. The actual process of migrating my preferences would probably take less time, but I know I’ll have to do it all over again if I ever upgrade to 1.0. Or maybe by then there’ll be an extension to do it for you. Heh, that would make me snort.

The manual labour of updating

Once I realised I really did have to do things by hand, this is how I got on:

• IEView: found on main site, supports 0.9+
• WebDeveloper: found on main site, supports 0.9+
• EditCSS: found on main site, supports 0.9+
• FLST: found on main site, supports 0.9+
• Digger: found via texturizer.net, supports 0.9+
• CopyImage: had to Google for it, only supports 0.8 :(
• GoUp: found via texturizer.net, supports 0.9+
• Luna Blue theme: had to Google for it, supports 0.9+

Overall, it took me about an hour to get all the proper versions of things above (I did make a couple of mistakes) and copy across my preferences, bookmarks, etc. Now, however, I’m done. Maybe I’ll conclude in a third part. Right now, I just want me dinner.