Firefox-2

[Paul S]

Paul S said the following on 05/20/2008 09:38 AM:
> Nigel Ridley said the following on 05/20/2008 05:19 AM:
>>> I got firefox-2 in /usr/bin/firefox-2
>>
>> That did it :-) but it doesn't have all my new bookmarks from 
>> firefox-3.0  - never mind I will find them later.
> 
> I also switched to ff2.  The reason I don't want to use ff3 is that some 
> bank sites have problems with it, and the backspace keyboard shortcut 
> doesn't page up like it should.  Two key bugs IMHO.
> 
> I don't know why ff2 didn't show up in your menu, because it did in 
> mine.  Maybe you have to logout / login.
> 
> The only way I could find to keep my ff3 bookmarks in ff2 was to open 
> ff3 and export them to a file.  Then close ff3 and open ff2 and import 
> the bookmarks file.
> 
> However, I think it's easier to keep ff3 installed and just disable it. 
>  All you have to do is remove /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 and remake the link 
> /usr/bin/firefox to point at /usr/bin/firefox-2.
> 
> I used dpkg-divert to do it:
> 
> sudo mkdir -p /diverted/usr/bin
> sudo dpkg-divert --rename --divert 
> /diverted/usr/bin/firefox-3.0-disabled /usr/bin/firefox-3.0
> sudo dpkg-divert --rename --divert /diverted/usr/bin/firefox-disabled 
> /usr/bin/firefox
> sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-2 /usr/bin/firefox
> 
> This means that ff3 will update whenever hardy-updates has an update. 
> When it reaches the final release, you can undo the diversion and remake 
> the link to use it. Read "man dpkg-divert" for more.
> 
> hth,
> 
> 

also should have meantioned that some plugins don't work with ff2, 
especially openjava.  So I installed sun-java6 and created a link as 
follows:

/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$ sudo ln -s 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

installed kaffeine-mozilla and ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/kaffein* 
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ and it works for most

regards,