[hardy] How Do You Get Back to Firefox 2?
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 21 21:27:24 UTC 2008
On 02/21/2008 04:51 AM, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> I made the mistake of upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta on Hardy. I has many
> many problems, but the main one is that you can't launch a URL from
> Thunderbird, or elsewhere. You have to copy&paste the URL into the
> browser windows. [ Are AOL folks having their revenge? ;-) ]
>
> Long story short, its too time consuming to 'test' this until this
> particular *critical* bug is fixed, so I want to regress Firefox back to
> version 2 so I have my clickable URLs that work.
>
> I think that including the Gutsy repository may be the way, but I'm afraid
> it will break something else in the process. Has anyone done this? If
> so, could you document how?
>
> Or is there a Firefox 2 package in Hardy that I'm just not seeing?
>
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
>
Download it an install it from Mozilla?
http://www.mozilla.org/
While these instructions are primarily for installing "new" versions of
FF, you should be able to modify to install 2x [note: do *not* just do a
general uninstall of your existing FF as it's likely to break other
things on your system]
Afterwards, you might find ubuntuzilla helpful:
http://ubuntuzilla.wiki.sourceforge.net/
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