Installing Firefox 3.0.15 beside 3.5.4 on Karmic

[Steve]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:52:19 -0000, Chris Jones  
<christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch> wrote:

>
> On 30 Oct 2009, at 8:43pm, Mike.lifeguard wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Karmic has Firefox 3.5.4, but I require the use of several extensions
>> which are not yet compatible with that version. How can I install
>> 3.0.15
>> alongside the new version? The standard respositories for Karmic don't
>> seem to have any 3.0 versions, and I'm unsure if it is OK to put a
>> line
>> in sources.list for Jaunty. I haven't been able to find a 3.0.15
>> package
>> in a PPA either. Surely there is a package I can install somewhere?
>
> How about just downloading the tar ball from the mozilla site
>
> http://www.firefox.com/
>
> Unpack it into your home area and just run it from there, until your
> extensions become 3.5 compatible ?
>
> Chris
>
You could also set extensions.checkCompatibility to False in about:config  
and see if the extensions are compatible.

-- 
Steve