Ubuntu 8.04: Migrating to Firefox 2.0.0.x from Firefox 3 Beta

[Felipe Figueiredo]

WARNING: people who follow this will loose all settings, including 
bookmarks, RSS feeds, plugins and languages locally installed.

It's also unnecessary to do as described here, as Firefox3 is reported to 
coexist well with Firefox2 when both are installed on Ubuntu 8.04 from 
the official repositories.

regards
FF

On Fri 25 Apr 2008 11:05:09 Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> [Removed an unnecessary step]
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> OS: Ubuntu 8.04
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> How to migrate to stable firefox 2.0.0.x from firefox 3 Beta, until
> firefox 3 final becomes available.
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> 1. i) Run System::Administration::Synaptic Package Manager.
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>    ii) Press the Search button and type firefox.
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>    iii) By selecting the "Mark for complete removal" boxes, uninstall
>    the "firefox", "firefox-3.0" and its dependencies packages.
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>    iv) Install "firefox-2" and "firefox-2-gnome-support" packages.
>
> 2. Delete the .mozilla directory under your home directory (in my case
> /home/john). If you are using nautilus, activate the View::Show Hidden
> Files menu item, to do this.
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> 3. Restart Ubuntu 8.04.
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> Now Firefox 2.0.0.x (currently 2.0.0.14) is ready to be used from the
> menu Applications::Internet.
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> If it doesn't run at the first attempt, press alt-F2 and type firefox-2
> and press Run.
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> If anyone has any problems, reply to this message.