Jesus, am I using windows here or what????

[Ray Parrish]

Pete Vander Giessen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
>   
>> Could someone please tell me how to undo the crap that has been foisted
>> off on me today by this "upgrade"????
>>     
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> The Ubuntu maintainers chose to push Firefox 3.6 to users because
> security updates have been discontinued for Firefox 3.0, and the
> expectation with Canonical supported apps is that they will receive
> security updates.
>
> If you really want to roll back to an old version of Firefox, the best
> thing to do would be to install it manually.  Instructions here:
>
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Installing%20a%20previous%20version%20of%20Firefox
>
> As the page mentions, you'll be foregoing security updates, and it
> would probably be a better idea to:
> 1)  Install the Firefox version in the Ubuntu repository.
> 2)  Clear the cache/history, or (worst comes to worst) create a new
> profile.  Instructions for that stuff at the above link, too.
>
> If you're unhappy with the direction that the Mozilla foundation is
> taking Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera are both also available.  I
> still tend to use Firefox as my primary browser, but the Chrome
> extension ecosystem is getting good enough that I'm a little tempted
> to switch.
>   
OK, I've got the old version running now, but even 'though I have had it 
install flash support twice, I still have no flash support. How do I 
manage to correctly get flash working again????

Thank you, Ray Parrish


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