New Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird

On sunday evening, we will kill any hanging Firefox or Thunderbird to activate the new versions.

First time you start Firefox or Thunderbird, it will create a new profile for you. Everything should be preconfigured and you can surf the web and read your mails without hassle.

• You are a Mozilla user and like to use your old bookmarks in Firefox?

  You can migrate your bookmarks from Mozilla to Firefox with the following command: cp ~/.mozilla/default/*/bookmarks.html ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/

• You are a Mozilla user and like to use your old addressbook in Thunderbird?

  You can migrate your addressbook from Mozilla to Thunderbird with the following command: cp ~/.mozilla/default/*/abook.mab ~/.thunderbird/*default/

• You are a Thunderbird user from the first hour and like to use your old addressbook in our new Thunderbird?

  You can migrate your addressbook from the old Thunderbird to the new Thunderbird with the following command: cp ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/*default/abook.mab ~/.thunderbird/*default/

They are now configured to open postscript documents with gv, and PDF documents with acreread now, by /etc/mailcap. You can override these settings with ~/.mailcap. Read the manpage of mailcap(5).

More general changes with the new DPHYS3 setup are listed here.

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