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How to replace Firefox 2.0 by 1.5

Asked by T. S. Ferreira

I just installed Ubuntu on my machine and it comes with Firefox 2.0 which has problems with some sites I access. I would like to replace it with Firefox 1.5 which worked fine under other Linuces. The Synaptic Package Manager does not offer Firefox 1.5; is there any simple way of doing it without causing some configuration problems?

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Raúl Soriano (gatoloko) said : 		#1

The easiest way is to download it from mozilla site in "tar.gz" or tar.bz" format, decompress it on a folder like /opt and create a desktop launcher pointing to that.

Can create a bug report for firefox 2.0 pointing to the web page you have troubles with? That way it can be fixed for following releases.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#2

Firefox 2.0 is included in the feisty fawn release 7.04

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#3

There is a known problem with some commercial web-proxies (that are used by some websites for load balancing among other things). The problem is that those web-proxies have a bug with the client identification of firefox under 2.0. The same probably happens under 1.5. The problem is the 'ist' letter combination. You can download the user agent extension for firefox and change the identification to soemthing without feisty (or ist) in it. Usually that solves the problem.

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T. S. Ferreira (tsferreira) said : 		#4

The problem I am having happens only under 2.0, and not under 1.5.
There is no use giving you the web page because it is a bank account
page for a personal password is necessary. FAIK it might be a site
problem which was ignored by 1.5.

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> There is a known problem with some commercial web-proxies (that are used
> by some websites for load balancing among other things). The problem is
> that those web-proxies have a bug with the client identification of
> firefox under 2.0. The same probably happens under 1.5. The problem is
> the 'ist' letter combination. You can download the user agent extension
> for firefox and change the identification to soemthing without feisty
> (or ist) in it. Usually that solves the problem.
>
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Best T. S. Ferreira (tsferreira) said : 		#5

I ended following Raúl Soriano's suggestion and installed a separate Firefox 1.5. I will use it only when 2.0 gives me troubles. Ugly but works :-(.

Thanks,

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#6

When I need an odd browser or some strange plugins I install the windows version under wine. That way its totally separate from the version on the local machine, and given that many web developers use windows-only plugins or features that only IE supports it means it's more likely to work for those (bad) sites. I rarely use it, but it's handy to have.