Downgrading firefox as unsupported by a site.

JONOR · #1 10th June 2009, 06:44 PM

Would someone kindly remind me how to downgrade Firefox 3.5b4 to the Fedora 10 version as since installing F11 a site ( a bank ) is telling me the browser is not supported. Firefox in F10 worked fine.

brunson · #2 10th June 2009, 06:53 PM

It may be easier to install user-agent-switcher and have FF lie about the version.

You should also contact your bank and tell them they suck.

Iron_Mike · #3 10th June 2009, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by brunson

You should also contact your bank and tell them they suck.

Atta boy.........

JONOR · #4 10th June 2009, 07:14 PM

When the going gets tough, Brunson gets going..

***bob*** · #5 10th June 2009, 07:22 PM

Another simple way is to just download the older version from Mozilla and run it from /home for those times you need it.

JONOR · #6 10th June 2009, 07:30 PM

Thanks Bob - that's just about within my level

warpino · #7 12th June 2009, 07:49 PM

hi everyone,

I think I'd better join this thread rather than opening a new one.

Is it possible to install a stable firefox rpm for fedora 11 x86_64? I simply don't want to use a beta version of the browser. If a f11 .rpm doesn't exist would a f10 work? How can I download it?

Thanks for your help and patience, guys.

w.

NoEffex · #8 12th June 2009, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by warpino

hi everyone,

I think I'd better join this thread rather than opening a new one.

Is it possible to install a stable firefox rpm for fedora 11 x86_64? I simply don't want to use a beta version of the browser. If a f11 .rpm doesn't exist would a f10 work? How can I download it?

Thanks for your help and patience, guys.

w.

First, you'd MAKE SURE the thing worked via downloading the non-rpm and running run-firefox.sh

Then, you'd do something like

rpm-Uvh name_of_rpm.rpm --nodeps --replacepkgs

But I really really really really really really really recommend you not downgrade it. The beta might as well be stable, because it has yet to crash for most individuals.

rf1002 · #9 16th June 2009, 10:47 PM

Hello JONOR

Uninstall Firefox 3.5 beta 4
Go to www.mozilla.com
Download the Linux package (*.tar.gz)
Unpack, cut and paste to some place nice (or rename it to .firefox and paste it in you home folder everything stays nice and clean)
Edit menus, new shortcut to "/home/*username*/.firefox/firefox"
Change the icon (the right one can be found in "/.firefox/icons" (it's best to drag and drop the icon firefox.png to the address bar in the screen where you can pick the icon, because when browsing the icons menu the picker wouldn't show me any .png files)
Then simply click your shortcut and magic happens

Hope this works for you.
Roel

ps: if you want to check if everything went well, go to https://cm.netteller.com/login/browsercheck/check.aspx

@brunson: Why do you think it's weird that a bank doesn't support a BETA version of a web browser? Don't you think they can't afford to take any risks? I think their a 100% right for only supporting thoroughly tested and fully developed versions.

marko · #10 16th June 2009, 10:56 PM

Not many people seem to know you can run multiple Firefox versions at the same time,
install your special use firefox in a place of its own like under ~/local/firefox
by getting the Mozilla 'tarball' of it and unpacking it in ~/local

Run the firefox from there by using the -ProfileManager option.

Quote:

~/local/firefox/firefox -ProfileManager

This will start profile manager first, then you can point the new firefox to put its profile directory so it's not in ~/.mozilla/firefox like your usual distribution's firefox (3.5b4 for Fedora 11) but a place like ~/local/profile
(near where you put the special firefox (3.0.11 in this case) is good). Check the box in the profile manager so it always comes up and modify your normal launch menu entry so the normal FF also is called with -ProfileManager )

The negative of this is the two profiles are completely independent, so if you add bookmarks to the usual firefox you won't have them in the other one. But the idea is you only use the special one to deal with the annoying bank and the main one for all else.

Dandapani · #11 17th June 2009, 01:55 AM

FF 3.5 B4 is extremely sluggish when scrolling on some pages on my fresh install of F11. I even went to LXDE thinking it was Gnome that was the slug in this newly planted garden of Fedora goodness. I hope the "fix" this beta before it goes final release!

I'm considering running a private version of 3.0 from my homedir instead of 3.5B4!

JONOR · #12 17th June 2009, 10:58 AM

Neat suggestion Marko, but it is not working yet.
Mozilla did not appear to offer a choice for architectures i noticed.
I assume this does not matter - mine is x86_64.

I should warn you of my noob.

Made a directory local in my home directory (besides there already being a .local).
Following on :

Code:

[JO@ljh ~]$ ~/local/firefox/firefox -ProfileManager
/home/JO/local/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: /home/JO/local/firefox/firefox-bin: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

What happened there ? firefox does have a subdirectory called firefox.

Dandapani · #13 17th June 2009, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dandapani

FF 3.5 B4 is extremely sluggish when scrolling on some pages on my fresh install of F11. I even went to LXDE thinking it was Gnome that was the slug in this newly planted garden of Fedora goodness. I hope the "fix" this beta before it goes final release!

I'm considering running a private version of 3.0 from my homedir instead of 3.5B4!

Specifically, pages that 1) have a video embed like youtube, and 2) that have been "zoomed" in to a bit (ctrl++). These pages don't scroll smoothly.

ehdwuld · #14 17th June 2009, 11:49 PM

hey my firefox and thunderbird randomlly crash too
and i was thinking of downgrading
one of the updates i downloaded yesterday said it was specifically for the purpose of downgrading rpms

does anyone know the command

i went to rpm find and got the F10 version of firefox and the F9 versin of Thunderbird for x86_64

can i just gui the software installer and remove the current versions then install from my download folder?

marko · #15 18th June 2009, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JONOR

Neat suggestion Marko, but it is not working yet.
Mozilla did not appear to offer a choice for architectures i noticed.
I assume this does not matter - mine is x86_64.

I should warn you of my noob.

Made a directory local in my home directory (besides there already being a .local).
Following on :

Code:

[JO@ljh ~]$ ~/local/firefox/firefox -ProfileManager
/home/JO/local/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: /home/JO/local/firefox/firefox-bin: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

What happened there ? firefox does have a subdirectory called firefox.

This looks like a pretty good place to look
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozi...efox/releases/

but like you said it I can't find the 64bit one.
I do know they have 64bit builds somewhere but it's some ftp directory I don't know.