Blue shell Firefox?

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Wednesday 14 May 2014 17:49:54 O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 14/05/2014 17:18, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 May 2014 05:59:33 O. Sinclair wrote:
> >> On 14/05/2014 00:58, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> >>> My installation has just been upgraded to Firefox 29 and I really don't
> >>> like the new Chrome like UI. Besides that I'd like to stay with the
> >>> Blueshell releases to have KDE dialogs as te Gnome equivalents are so
> >>> counter intuitive.
> >>> 
> >>> How do I roll back and pin my Firefox to Blueshells 28 release?
> >> 
> >> You have added the blueshell ppa? I use it and it works just fine.
> > 
> > Yes got it enabled and though it's sometimes a bit behind it works fine.
> > 
> >> to roll back (depending on when you added blueshell ppa it might not be
> >> available except for the "trusty" version):
> >> open Muon, find Firefox. Click on tab Versions, choose the 28 version of
> >> choice and click on button "force version".
> >> 
> >> Look around after that for a way to "park" at version 28 in Muon, at
> >> this moment I can not remember how that is done.
> > 
> > I successfully downgraded but Blueshells version apparently wasn't
> > available. Tried the saucy version instead but language packs wasn't
> > available.
> > 
> > Maybe I should stop being conservative and just try to customize it to my
> > needs ;)
> 
> On my system I have the Blueshell v28, I think because I had it
> installed before release of v29 so I guess it is in "apt-cache" or
> something.
> 
> I think if you manage to browse the actual online repository you may
> find the necessary v28 deb-file but I have no idea how.

Yeah I might resort to that. Or the ESR release or what it's called.

> Otherwise try the oxygenkde add-on, you can use the CheckCompatibility
> add-on first to be able to enable oxygenkde. It is very configurable and
> you can get your "good old" FF back quite easily.

I'll have a look at that. Used it earlier but was pleased with Blueshells 
releases for a long while.


Thanks for you suggestions :)


> /Sinclair

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Best regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Tanghus