[tor-talk] still problems - update available

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 10/14/2011 7:07 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
> Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfsplk at gmx.com):
>
>> On 10/14/2011 3:07 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
>>
>> The problem w/ the startup page showing there was a new version, was I
>> copied my old profile (say from 2.2.32-4) into the latest TBB ver
>> profile folder.  Something perfectly normal&  acceptable in Firefox.
>> Why would I want to reconfig the Aurora UI ( things like not show
>> suggestions when typing in address bar, font size, etc.), or reinstall&
>> reconfigure the few extensions used in TBB - every time a new version
>> comes out?
> I would argue that you're actually doing it backwards. Firefox copies
> over your existing files with the new version.
Thanks.  Good to know there's a bug already filed on my problem.  
Anyway, changing the torbrowser.version value to correct new version, 
temporarily fixed the new version notification.

For tonight, I'll only answer this one of your stmts.  You were probably 
thinking only of users w/ a single profile & probably in the default 
location & install in the same folder as previous ver.  I have / do none 
of those.
When installing a new Firefox version, if you have multiple profiles & 
want to use a specific one, you often must either specify thru profile 
mgr which to use, copy (or restore from a BU) a profile over to the new 
install or copy / restore selected files the user chooses.  In the 
latter case, there's no choice except copying / restoring.

Firefox doesn't copy any files - it just uses the last active profile, 
AFAIK.  One reason to BU / restore the old profile, is if updating, some 
files in the existing profile can get corrupted.  I've had it happen a 
few times & thousands on Mozillazine forums have.  In the case of TBB, 
UNLESS you're extracting over the top of the existing version (I don't), 
I don't see how it will pick up the previous profile.  I haven't tried 
it w/ TBB - not sure what it'd do.

Maybe TBB is configured that way, but you're not "installing" anything - 
just extracting files.  TBB comes w/ a pre configured prefs.js file - as 
I discovered.  Which prefs.js would win, if extracted a new ver to the 
old folder?  I imagine for duplicate files, 7Zip would ask to confirm 
which file to keep.