Firefox Upgrade and Thunderbird Install

As mentioned in my first post, I need to upgrade Firefox. My company's image includes 2, and I want 3.

I also use Thunderbird for my personal email, so I need to get that installed as well. I started there, actually, and got Firefox installed out of that.

I did a Google search, and found a website on installing Thunderbird. Their instructions helped me through the process greatly, and I got the Bird installed no problem.

Now, I need to move my profile stuff over. So, back to my Windows partition (which I plan on mounting as a VM some time soon), and I zip up my profile directory there. Now, I'm off to unzip it to my home directory.....

They're extracting now. Keep your fingers crossed. By the way, I did make a backup of my profile directory in my Linux partition before hand, just in case.

And it worked! All my email is there (IMAP through Google for domains). All my RSS feeds are there. WOOT! (Oh, they're one of my RSS feeds.)

So, now on to Firefox, right? Well, turns out the directions that worked for Thunderbird also worked for Firefox. Just a little tweaking to get the directories right, and I'm up and running Firefox 3. One small problem, however, was the Flash plug in. Firefox 3 said I didn't have it.

I downloaded it, and tried to install it, but was told that I had a newer version already installed. So, I went to my Firefox 2 install directory (/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14), and copied the contents of the plugins directory to my Firefox 3 install directory, and then restarted Firefox 3. That worked like a charm.

I still need to update my icons in my menus to start 3, and not two, but other than that, I think I'm golden.

Update:
One thing I relied on under Windows on Thuderbird was the new email icon in the system tray. Didn't see it in my Linux one. Some searching had me come across a plugin that does it. Installed it, and it worked fine. I couldn't install it via Firefox. I had to download it and install it directly from Thunderbird. Maybe that's normal, and I just don't know.

Update:
I fixed the menu entries. I wish I could remember how I did that, but it wasn't hard. Sorry I can't detail what I did, or provide a link to what I did.

Update:
I had a little pet peeve with the backspace key not taking me back in history in Firefox. I fixed that with the help of this article. Yes, it is for Firefox 2, but it worked for Firefox 3 just fine for me.

Only thing left now is to migrate my favorites, but I'm in the midst of a WIndows Free Weekend, so I can't get to them to export them.