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Firefox rollback

Asked by Xpatnat on 2013-06-13

I'd like to downgrade from FF 21 to FF20 in order to keep my adds-on working.

Is there an easy way to do this (a .deb would be nice...tar file compilation isn't my forte) or could someone guide me through a how-to uninstall FF21/install FF20 without having dependencies problems and messing up my system. I'd also like to avoid further FF automatic updates and do it manually so I don't have the same problem after each system update.

Thanks in advance for your replies :)

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said on 2013-06-13:

The easy way here is, if you have the firefox 20 in apt cache..
Take a look

ls /var/cache/apt/archives/ | grep -i firefox

If returns a .deb package in 20 version , then connect to the folder (cd) and install it with dpkg. FIRST uninstall the newer version.

    sudo apt-get purge firefox*
    cd /vaf/cache/apt/archives/
    sudo dpkg -i <here write the package name>.deb (you can copy-paste it or use the Tab completion)

Another way is to download the package from here.. (20 version is still available from lucid repos)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/firefox

scroll down and you will see amd64 or i386(32bit). Download the appropriate package for your architecture and install it. FIRST uninstall the newer release. (see the first command above).

The last step AFTER a successful installation is to hold back the package to NOT be upgraded automatically.

echo "firefox" hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections

When the plugins you want are working with the newer version you can un-hold the package.. with the command below

echo "firefox" install | sudo dpkg --set-selections

and upgrade it with

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Regards
NikTh

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daniel CURTIS (anoda) said on 2013-06-13:

Hi Xpatnat. Or simple try download Firefox 20 or 19 and try to install with e.g. 'dpkg' utility. Please remember that both versions 20 and 19 will not be updated with security patches. So, Firefox you can download from here (download should automatically begin in a few seconds);

,-----[ Firefox 20 ]
| https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-20.0&os=linux&lang=en-US
`-----

,-----[ Firefox 19 ]
| https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-19.0&os=linux&lang=en-US
`-----

Both packages are tar.bz2 so you will have to unpack and simple... try to install.

Best regards.