[hardy] How Do You Get Back to Firefox 2?

[Carl Spitzer]

download and use the tar.gz of firefox 2.0.0.11
I do it this way all the time in SuSE because the distro version is
behind.

just break it out and move it to /usr/local/<whatever you called the FF
directory>



On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 06:51 -0600, 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
> 
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