If you just download the updated version without uninstalling the existing install then you shouldn't have any problem. It's pretty efficient normally in copying everything over to the new version. Just click 'Help' then 'Check for updates' It should all be automatic from there..
Make sure you make a restore point before starting then, If it all goes belly up again, just do a system restore. Everything should be back to normal then.
Hope you have a trouble free install this time....:)

Have to agree with that...I usually just do the updates from within the browser. So far no problems losing anything..

One annoyance I have with FF3.6.

In every previous version, if I "middle-clicked" to open a link in a new tab, it would put the new tab at the right hand end of the row where I could find it immediately.

Now, it puts the new tab next to the tab I clicked from, so I have to search along the row to find it. If I have several tabs from the same site, I have to look at them all to find the new one.

'Tis a pain. Anyone know a fix?

It can be cured, have no fear....
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1) Open up firefox and go to "about:config" (just type it in the address bar without quotes)
2) You might get a warning that this will void your warranty. Proceed with care.
3) Filter the results by searching for 'insertRelatedAfterCurrent'
4) Now simply click the preference until the value changes from true to false.

Then in Tools, Options, Tabs, tick box for 'when I open a link in a new tab, open it immediately'


This makes it go back to the way you are used to.
It worked on mine....No problems:ok:

Well, I updated a spare, slightly older, computer from FF2 to FF3.6 and it seems to have worked perfectly. I then set a system restore point and did the same on this machine and I lost all of my bookmarks exactly as I did the last time I tried it. I went into the FF3.6 help section and followed the instructions for restoring bookmarks lost while updating from FF2 to FF3.6 and...... it didn't work. I went back to my newly established system restore point and that didn't work. I went back to the last system restore point which had been created automatically in the normal course of events (which was for yesterday) and that didn't work either. So I've gone back to OldVersions.com and reinstalled FF2 and all has been restored as before.

Can PPRuNe "HELP, PLEASE" work better than FF help etc. has done?

Sadly, in about:config on my machine there is no tag called anything with Related, or Current.

There's only one with insert:
intl.menuitems.insertseparatorbeforeaccesskeys;true


The nearest I could find are:
browser.link.open_newwindow;3
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction;2
middlemouse.openNewWindow;true

- which may be the one I need, but I have no idea what the numbers do.

Off now to have a play...

I think it's
dom.disable_window_open_feature.location;true which I just changed to ;false - I think it's done it.

Will check some more and report back.

Cameronian - did you export the bookmarks?

From which version and at what point?

Nooo:eek:...Just rechecked mine and it's there....Did you enter it into the filter at the top of the page?
If that didn't work...Scroll down to 'Browser,tabs,insertRelatedAfterCurrent'
It's there with all the other tab settings.....

Nope, that key's not there on mine. But the change to dom.disable_window_open_feature.location has fixed it, so I'm happy.

My apologies, Cam - I missed your post #60 on the fold of the page. Google will help you 'find' the bookmarks (and 'export' them), and I would guess export from 2 and import into 3.6?

What OS do you have? I'm operating Vista and it's there. I checked on another computer and found it there also...
What you have changed has nothing to do with tabs.....it is supposed to Prevent pop ups to hide the menu bar.
Keep Firefox?s location bar on sight | Blue Onion Software *

Can someone else possibly check on their computers to make sure I'm not going mad??:eek:

Running Windows 7.

EDIT: that triggered a thought! The version running at the time was 3.5.7 which doesn't have the problem. :doh:

3.6 has the relevant key, and changing it has indeed fixed the problem.
Thank you!

Phew!! Thought I was losing it there for a moment.....:uhoh:
Glad it got sorted for you....:ok:

I blame my age :)

I think the time has come to stop running several versions in parallel to preserve some "plugins" that I don't use much anyway.