Re: [orca-list] Which Version of Firefox?

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Reagarding downgrade a package in arch, there is a package in the uar 
repository called downgrade.

On 01/17/2014 11:56 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Hey thanks for the mention of the Arch Rollback deal; I didn't know
> there was such a thing. Fortunately, I'm still at FF 24.0 and have
> already blocked updates to Firefox in pacman. I'm still on Arch and
> love it. I also blocked updates to Thunderbird since I'm sure Mozilla
> probably screwed up later versions of that too.
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:45:05AM -0500, Kyle wrote:
> > If possible, I would personally say to stay with Firefox 24.0 for now.
> > There are still some regressions and bugs in 26.0 that cause the karet
> > to trip over lists and other rather common HTML elements. It's even
> > causing problems on one of my own websites, where I hand-coded an
> > unordered list of contributors on an about page.
> >
> > In Debian and Ubuntu-based systems, you will need to hold Firefox at
> > 24.0 in your apt configuration. In Arch, you will need to download the
> > Firefox 24.0 package from the Arch Rollback Machine
> > sudo pacman -U
> > http://seblu.net/a/arm/packages/f/firefox/firefox-24.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
> > or
> > sudo pacman -U
> > http://seblu.net/a/arm/packages/f/firefox/firefox-24.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> > and tell Pacman to ignore future firefox updates, either on its command
> > line or via /etc/pacman.conf. Fedora and openSUSE should have similar
> > hold or ignore features, as long as Firefox 24.0 is still in a repo
> > somewhere. I do believe Ubuntu still does have it in the pool somewhere,
> > but it may need to be downloaded manually and installed with gdebi if
> > something like
> > sudo apt-get install firefox=24.0 doesn't work. Hope this helps.
> > ~Kyle
> > http://kyle.tk/
> > --
> > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
> > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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{}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza