firefox & thunderbird upgrade problem

[Jeremy Faulkner]

Gary Aitken wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I upgraged thunderbird and firefox via portupgrade.
> 
> Things kinda work ok, except I cannot modify preferences, and it
> doesn't see any of my old mail, which leads me to believe it
> doesn't like my .thunderbird and .mozilla directory hierarchy.
> 
> All of the subdirectories and files in the .thunderbird tree are
> owned and writeable by the user, yet no modifications to the
> configuration (preferences) will write.  The same goes for
> firefox.
> 
> Can someone give me a clue as to what is going on?  It behaves
> as if some directory is not writeable, but I sure can't find it.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers,
> 
> Gary
> 

Upgrading thunderbird and firefox involve instructions that are on the 
mozilla.org website. Certain directories in the .thunderbird/.mozilla 
directories need to be removed and regenerated by the new version of 
thunderbird/firefox.

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Jeremy Faulkner	<gldisater at gldis.ca>