On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:48:07 +0800, Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:

>> I am running firefox 2.0.0.16 on ubuntu 7.10.
>> Firefox crashes every few minutes (sometimes).
>> Other times Firefox can run for half an hour.
>> I have just learned about sudo apt-get. If I
>> #sudo apt-get install firefox will it load
>> firefox on top of itself?
>
> Start a new profile after backing up your
> bookmarks and passwords.

If you move your old paswords file (signons?.txt)[1] you will also need to
move key3.db to be able to use it.
[1] the "?" will be a 2 or a 3 depending on which major version of Firefox
you are using.