Updating to a new version

Before moving to a new version, it is strongly recommended to backup your entire Profile data to a safe location, the best is a separate drive. If you have Mypal installed in portable mode, you probably know how to deal with Profile, otherwise you better refer to Firefox documentation, Mypal is identical in this regard.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

Then you can proceed to update the way you consider most convenient (i.e. unzip directly to the installation folder). If you succeeded and new the version starts and works as expected – you are lucky winner; however it is recommended to keep a reserve copy of your Profile a couple of days more.

For those who use language pack(s), these are known to be troublesome. If browser wont start with XML error update or remove the langpack. Look further #203.

If something went wrong:

1. You must delete the entire content of you Mypal installation folder (including subfolders), as well as your Profile folder.
2. Copy/unzip the new version into (empty) installation folder.
3. Make some test whether new clean installation with newly created clean Profile works with the sites you usually visit.

If you still observe any buggy behavior – report the bug(s) found to developer, and revert to the previous version.

If everything with clean installation and Profile goes fine – you can restore your old Profile, but before doing this you ought to delete all the extensions/plug-ins (please refer to the links above).

If browser starts and works on your old Profile without extension – then you can start to return the extensions of your choice one by one: thus one can identify which one(s) lost compatibility.

If you face after update issues with some particular sites – first of all, delete related cookies, most probably that is the cause. Please keep in mind: I work alone on voluntary basis, so it is physically impossible to check every possible configuration with every possible extension with every existing site.

Last (but not least): if couple of days later you still decide to revert the previous version – there is not only a possibility to return the old Profile (recall, you still keep a copy?), but also ‘inject’ a new one (with history and bookmarks you picked up in a meanwhile). You need just to delete file named ‘compatibility.ini’ in the new Profile folder.