New Introduction to Mozilla Firebird Articles Explore Extensions and Browsing HistorySunday October 26th, 2003Morten W. Petersen writes: "Kay Frode has create two new articles on Firebird, covering installation of extensions and use of the browsing history. "We've also received a Dutch translation of the first two parts of the Thunderbird introduction, making the Thunderbird series available in 5 languages! Any comments? Thanks. "P.S. We're always looking for more translations." Can I just install a new version of an extension to upgrade it? I just installed an experimental release of the Google Toolbar on top of the stable version, so I'm guessing that's the way you should upgrade extensions, yes. Not always. In thoery you should ALWAYS un-install an extension before upgrading. In practice, installing a new version over an old should work fine, and does for most extensions. Where the crap happens is when an extension has a major overhaul and the overlays change etc. Then you usually get bugs or malfunctions when installing over an older version. In general I would say you can, and do so. But be sure you check the authors recomendations. Or if upgrading an extension doesn{t work, then uninstall and > In thoery [sic] you should ALWAYS un-install an extension before upgrading. Doesn't that involve having extension un-install actually be possible? Or are we being _very_ theoretical here? If you want to be guaranteed not to have conflicting files, you would have to delete everything, and then reinstall Firebird and reinstall the extensions... It's fortunate that this doesn't often happen in practice, but the fact that it's possible in theory (and does actually happen sometimes) sucks. http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=14694 Popup blocker Download Manager Extendtions Manager Um looks like Microsoft is getting a clue bigtime.... in about 3 years :) |