Re: [orca-list] Direct download link for firefox 24 for 64 bit ubuntu 13.4?

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, Rusty.

As a preface to this message, I want to state that I do not have an 
Ubuntu system any more. This means that I am not able to test for myself 
what I am about to share. That said, the Web sites which I used as 
references seem to be reliable and relevant.

Upon briefly searching, I did not find a Firefox 24 .deb package for 
Ubuntu. However, I did find an article [1] which contained some steps 
which may help you to downgrade to Firefox 24. Here is what I found:

1. Open a terminal.
2. Execute the following command to see which versions of Firefox are 
available in the repository:

sudo apt-cache showpkg firefox

3. Find the previous version of Firefox which you wish to downgrade to, 
and then execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install firefox=<version>

Where <version> is the Firefox version number which you would like to 
downgrade to.

I also read on a separate site [2] that you can hold Firefox (or any 
other package) from automatically updating by running:

sudo apt-mark hold firefox

To remove the hold, you should be able to simply run:

sudo apt-mark unhold firefox

I hope that this helps. It is hard to research something online when 
your Web browser is acting up. <smile> I really hope that this gets you 
back up and running!

Take care.

REFERENCES:
[1] http://www.howtogeek.com/117929/how-to-downgrade-packages-on-ubuntu/
[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto
On 11/05/2013 08:14 PM, Rusty Perez wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'm having trouble finding a download of a .dev file to roll back my
> firefox. Part of this is because I can't navigate web pages very well
> the way things stand.
> So, any help at all would be very much appreciated.
> I'm running ubuntu 13.4 64 bit.
> If you have another suggestion for me, I completely open!
>
> Thanks!
> Rusty
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