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UPDATE [2005-04-17 20:18:10]: Please see this post for the most current version of the upgrade instructions below.

If you're reading this in Internet Explorer, you should stop, right now, and go download Firefox (then help spread the word!). The preview release of the 1.0 version of FireFox is on FIRE. They've had over 1,000,000 downloads over the past 4 days (they were shooting for 1,000,000 in ten days).

It's pretty bitchin' and while you're at it, give the Mozilla Foundation $15. FireFox and other Mozilla apps can only get better.

UPDATE: An easy way to upgrade FireFox if you haven't done this in a while is hinted at here (it's written for PC users... I'm mac).

1. The trick is this: Install and run the new v1.0PR version of FireFox. Then copy the following files

   bookmarks.html // bookmarks
user.js and prefs.js // preferences
cookies.text and cookperm.txt (or hostperm.1) // cookies
signon.txt and key3.db // passwords


   from your directory (from ~username/)

   Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.xxx/

   to a backup directory (on your Desktop, for example).

2. Then remove the default.xxx/ directory entirely (where "xxx" will be different for each Firefox installation out there). You can just move (mv) it to your desktop for backup instead of deleting it.
3. Restart Firefox. It will create a new default.xxx/ directory. Quit Firefox.
4. Now, copy the files from 1. (above) back to the new default.xxx directory.
5. Finally, restart Firefox. This should give you your old Firefox, with all it's preferences, etc. restored.
6. Now you can to update.mozilla.org and get new extensions and themes.