Hardy upgrade without Firefox 3

[Michael Zoet]

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JosephK schrieb:
> On 14:17 Tue 01 Apr     , Richard Mancusi wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM, JosephK <joseph at oxtedonline.net> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to upgrade to Hardy from Gutsy but still keep Firefox 2?
>>>
>>>  I have Gutsy as my main OS and have Hardy on a separate disk but I have
>>>  some issues with Firefox 3 which is the default in Hardy. When Hardy
>>>  becomes the full release I would like to upgrade but still keep FF2 for
>>>  a while. Is this possible?
>>>
>>>  --
>>>  Regards, Joe
>>>
>> I don't know about the upgrade, but a clean install of Beta-1 yielded me
>> Firefox-2 and Firefox-3 by default.  If you can do a fresh install, I
strongly
>> recommend it.
>>
> Strange, because my clean install of beta-1 just gave me FF3 by default.
> FF2 is still in the repos but I am unsure as to how it would co-exist
> with 3. Or do I remove 3 and install 2? Would this keep my
> bookmarks/plugins/themes etc?
Yes it will. Both run fine on my 2 Hardy Beta desktop testsystems.
But firefox beta 3 is the system default browser. Do not know why and
it crashes a lot on my two systems...

The firefox executable is a symlink to the firefox beta 3 executable.
I just changed the symlink of firefox to point to firefox 2 by hand.
But this may break on the next update and I have to change it back by
hand.
I'm not sure if this can be done with the update-alternative system.
That would be the debian way. Just give it a try.

Removing firefox beta 3 completly is no option for me, because there
are some dependencies on firefox beta 3... And for me it is a mystery
why a beta version of firefox is the default browser. But it is Hardy
beta also ;-).

Michael
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