Installeer Firefox 2 in Ubuntu 8.04 Sterke Heron

Langs gepost Saad Hamid op 4 Mei, 2008

Ubuntu 8.04 heeft Sterke Heron me onlangs een goede tijd behalve de Web het doorbladeren ervaring gegeven. Firefox 3 bèta 5 is inbegrepen in Ubuntu 8.04 def. als standaardWebbrowser alhoewel zijn niet stabiel. Vooral, zijn niet zelfs zal compatibel met Wordpress 2.5 en houden afluisterend u nu en dan met nieuwe problemen.

Zo wat is de oplossing? Of krijg Opera voor Linux of krijg oude en machtige Firefox 2 terug. Vele gebruikers denken dat aangezien Firefox 3 bèta 5 in de definitieve versie van Sterke Ubuntu 8.04 zo waarschijnlijk is omvat er geen gemakkelijke manier is om het van de hand te doen en Firefox 2 in plaats daarvan maar in te installeren werkelijkheid zijn zeer gemakkelijk dit te doen.

Ga naar de Bronnen van de Software van het Beleid → van het Systeem → en zorg ervoor u alle bewaarplaatsen van het softwarepakket hebt toegelaten. Open nu de Synaptische Manager van het Pakket en zoek de volgende pakketten.

  • firefox
  • firefox-3.0
  • firefox-3.0-dev
  • firefox-3.0-gnome-steun

Klik op elk van dit pakketten en „Teken voor Verwijdering met de rechtermuisknop aan“. Vind nu de volgende pakketten en klik aan „Teken voor Installatie met de rechtermuisknop aan“

  • firefox-2
  • firefox-2-gnome-steun

Klik van toepassing zijn eens en toen opnieuw klikken van toepassing zijn. Dit zal Firefox 3 bèta 5 verwijderen en zal zal Firefox 2 downloaden en installeren. Webbrowser kan dan van Toepassingen → Internet → Firefox 2 Browser van het Web worden betreden

I have installed Hardy Heron through wubi along with Vista. I have installed firefox 2 as you have mentioned. Now installation of google toolbar fails with firefox2 with error -203. I dont know whats wrong here.
  • Dave
    Darshak, I had the same problem and it was that something in the ~/.mozilla/ dir was only compatible with firefox-3 so I blew that dir away since its just profile stuff and it was a new install anyway. I ran firefox-2 again and it was happy.
  • Rob
    @Darshak You need to do the complete removal as suggested by Michael. Possibly look in your home directory and remove any folders for firefox there.
  • I do not provide my names
    Darshank, I'm having the same problem. I look at the Ubuntu forums and half the time the people answer the wrong question.
  • beq
    @Darshak:

    After getting back to firefox-2 with this method. I managed to install the add-ons making a new user profile in firefox-2.

    In case that you have not tried yet, here it goes:

    run firefox with

    $ firefox-2 -P

    Create a new profile named "Firefox2" (or any other name)

    and then make sure to launch firefox now with

    $ firefox-2 -P Firefox2

    That worked for me.
  • Dat
    @Darshark:
    Before install FF2, search for every folders lft by FF3 ( usr/lib/firefox ), delete all. In home folder ther will be one that is hidden. Delete all. And then install FF2
  • borras
    The same problem :(
  • cloud858rk
    @Darshak

    I had the same problem. It is because Firefox 3 is still installed and Firefox 2 and 3 use the same .firefox folder to store their data. So essentially, it is trying to install the add-ons on BOTH 2 and 3, and since it doesn't work on 3, it refuses to install.
  • @nikonian
    Same here. Problems eith firefox-gnome-support package when trying to install FF2.
  • Hi,
    I had the same problem, firefox 2 does not run, neither extensions.
    I solved it removing the firefox lib directories:
    rm -r /usr/lib/firefox
    rm -r /usr/lib/firefox-addons

    Regards!
  • I removed firefox 3 and installed 2 because I use a lot of plugins and very few were working under v3.

    I used a similar process to the original article. The details are described on http://notatplay.blogspot.com/2008/05/ubuntu-80...

    I didn't need to remove any directories. I especially did *not* remove the ~/.mozilla/ dir which has got all of the profile details in it.
  • Eric Allen
    Looks like a partial upgrade removed FF3...I had to install 2, it wouldn't let me install 3 at all! Interesting. I haven't found out why yet.
  • Don Birdsall
    The whole thing is too messy. I gave up and installed Flock. All of the Firefox extensions that I use work in Flock too, and the browser is just as fast.

    I had to abandon FF3 because of system freezes and Mozilla is not fixing the bug until "later this year."
  • Jenda
    THX, before i run a FF2 from WINE emulator, but that is so much better.
  • Tim
    Hi,

    The problem Darshak, Dave and others mentioned above appears to be due to a problem in the extensions.rdf in your home directory's .mozilla sub-dir. I found this bug post https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firef... and the workaround of removing only the extensions.rdf not the entire .mozilla dir worked for me.

    I had already removed firefox 3 though and since both 2 & 3 use the same dir you may find the problem reoccurs if you decide to keep firefox 3.
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