How to downgrade current version of firefox

#HOW TO DOWNGRADE CURRENT VERSION OF FIREFOX INSTALL#
#HOW TO DOWNGRADE CURRENT VERSION OF FIREFOX UPGRADE#
#HOW TO DOWNGRADE CURRENT VERSION OF FIREFOX DOWNLOAD#

You probably want to disable auto-update in your freshly downgraded Firefox.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-0.5.1 /usr/bin/firefox.

Copy the files into your system: sudo cp -R firefox /usr/lib/firefox-0.5.1.

Unpack: tar jxpvf firefox-5.0.1.tar.bz2.

#HOW TO DOWNGRADE CURRENT VERSION OF FIREFOX DOWNLOAD#

Download a release for your system from.

I didn't have to use it, but better safe than sorry.

Use the bookmark manager ( CTRL+Shift+O) to make a backup of your bookmarks.

Doing this will probably fuck up your system and my Firefox text rendering looks like shit now. If you still want to downgrade your Firefox for other reasons, here is how I downgraded my Firefox 6 to Firefox 5. So running an old Firefox should not be a long-term solution for anything.

Mozilla has stated that they will no longer provide security patches for any but the most recent versions of Firefox.

#HOW TO DOWNGRADE CURRENT VERSION OF FIREFOX UPGRADE#

it also has an option for forbid-version to disable an upgrade to a particular package.Note that if you plan to downgrade Firefox because your Selenium tests broke after a Firefox upgrade, there is a better way that doesn't involve downgrading.

Ok the command aptitude has an option -t to tell which version of a package you wish to install. Bigger time frame = happier developer = haz cheezeburger Point 2 - Developer has time for more features and compatibility since a version change in Firefox will not (in most cases) affect the compatible nature of the addon and this way, giving the developer a bigger time frame. Nothing but problems since, downloading doesn't work, tabs are just spinning without updating, crashed 2 times in 20 minutes etc. from 3.0.13 or something like that I believe. Removing the 'What the hell do you mean is incompatible' face of the user. Downgrade Firefox Just 'upgraded' to FF 3.5.2. Point 1 - User can use an 'old' addon in a new release. This way if a particular addon has worked in all Firefox, the user has a chance to say that he/she would like the addon to still be enable in the latest firefox. Very little for a dev.Д«y default, starting from Firefox 8, addons will be assumed compatible with the latest firefox enhanced version of the addon manager until proven otherwise, either by a check to see if the addon gives an error (by user) or by the dev.

With the new one their almost 8-9 month cycle went rapidly to a 2 week to 6 weeks time cycle.

Devs had more time to work on their addons. I guess its too late for me - I uninstalled and reinstalled, leaving I had to reinstall my add-ons, bookmarks, saved passwords, etc.

#HOW TO DOWNGRADE CURRENT VERSION OF FIREFOX INSTALL#

So it gives a change to the addon developers to have their work ready for the newer version.Д«ut since this is not really a problem with the addon developers or the users that use them. After some fumbling with methods that rejected downgrades, I found a way: adb install -r -d This did downgrade, but then Firefox systematically crashed on startup. In my case, Firebug, Web Developer and Colorzilla need to work to be compatible with the newer version before it comes out, that is why it enters nightly, alpha, beta, rc stages. It is they who need to be compatible with the newer version for it to work. The current status of porting LEGACY extensions to WebExtension are located in Google. First you are attributing the Addons incompatible problem with Firefox instead of the true source of the problems, the Addons Developers. For your information: This new version does not support LEGACY ADDONS.

How to downgrade current version of firefox