[A clean installation is only necessary if you had a version older than 1.0 or if you are having problems with Firefox. What it does is remove all traces of Firefox from your system, eliminating any problems that may have been present in the Firefox installation or with your profile, so you can start afresh.]
- Download Firefox 1.5
- Create a backup of your Profile. You can simply copy everything to another folder on your hard drive, which will give Firefox the ability to retrieve your prior settings, bookmarks, etc. If you have customized your search plugins, back them up too. (They are in the installation directory, not in the profile. Newly added search plugins will be stored in the profile in Firefox 1.5; you may wish to move the entire search plugins folder from the installation directory to your profile folder.)
- Uninstall any previous version(s) of Firefox. In Windows use the Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. After uninstalling Firefox, Windows users should go back and delete the Firefox installation directory, typically C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.
- Delete the Firefox folder in the Firefox "Profiles" location. (Do not simply delete the "Profiles" subfolder. Make sure to delete the Firefox folder containing the "Profiles" folder and related files, including "profiles.ini".) .
- Install Firefox 1.5 with as little as possible running on your PC. You can reboot your PC so you have a fresh start and don't start any other work until you install 1.5 successfully.
- Before you open firefox, copy key settings back from your prior profiles. From your Backup Profile folder (created in step #2), copy over bookmarks.html, cookies.txt, hostperm.1, key3.db, signon.txt, formhistory.dat and user.js from your backup to your newly created profile.
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