One for the geeks.

[Tim Lamb]

On my desk top is an icon leading to *old Firefox data* 95Mb created last May. I have no idea of the benefit/purpose in keeping this file.

W7 pro system.

Any thoughts in words of few syllables?

[Animal]

If you look at the file you'll find out what's there and of what value it is.

[wasbit]

Presume you are using Windows as your operating system. If the icon has an arrow in the corner then it is a shortcut to the file, not the file itself.

[Andrew]

Beware of geeks bearing gifts ?.

[Robin]

What you have there is stuff from when you (or some other bod) did a "Refresh" to Firefox in May.

It's there so you can get back stuff you might want. Stuff like bookmarks.

If you are now sure you have got all you want you can delete it.

But you can just leave it there if you ain't short of disk space. It won't do any harm.

[Tim Lamb]

Succinct!

Well I looked and it seems to be records of stuff Firefox had retained in the previous version.

There is 1.9Mb of favicons.sqlite for example.

I can't think of any reason I might want to generate logos etc.

[Tim Lamb]

No arrow.

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[Tim Lamb]

Firefox seems to have copied over my bookmarks ok.

Going back to previously visited sites? Currently they are going to insist on a fresh set of permissions as FF is set to delete on closing.

Does it use up any processor time?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Sunak is a shit?

Oh, you wanted thoughts about Firefox? Why didn't you say.

[Tim Streater]

No. If there's nothing missing in your FF setup then you can just delete it.

[Tim Lamb]

Ok. That's clear enough.

While you less intellectually challenged folk are here.. I see Thunderbird wants me to download a new version and promises an easy set up! Is this best avoided?

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[Andy Burns]

I find it best to keep up to date ... what version are you currently using?

[Brian Gaff]

I think its the difference between an uninstall and a total uninstall, including data. Firefox used to give you the choice so you could do an install and reimport the data. Brian

[Fredxx]

Do you prefer PMs who are as thick as shit?

The OP does say.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Im on 102.2 its pretty good

[Tim Lamb]

Current 102.2.2

It wants to upgrade to 102.5.0

I'm a bit nervous when they mention *easy set up* !

[The Natural Philosopher]

That looks like simply a security release. In fact if you look at the release notes for 102.3,4 and 5 it is all minor bug fixes. Almost no functionality has changed at all.

[Andy Burns]

It's just bugfixes, not new features, I'd say do it.

[charles]

I'm using 102.5.0 so I must have loaded the update. Itjust happened.

[Tim Lamb]

Ok. I'll risk it. I may be gone some time:-)

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