apt-get install firefox-3.6 installs 5.0

Question

As title says, I'm trying to install firefox 3.6. However, I have no luck with achieving that.

I tried

apt-get install firefox-3.6

and after installation in about: there is "Firefox 5.0"

How can I force 3.6 to install ?

Answer 1

Firefox 3.6 is only available in Lucid and Maverick repositories. If you are using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, then Firefox 5 is what you get.

You could download Firefox 3.6 from Mozilla and run it from you home or /opt, but if you provide more info about why you want to downgrade, then maybe we can help. Firefox 3.6 support won't last long. Besides, it is much slower than Firefox 5.

Answer 2

ubuntu: downgrade to firefox 3.6

wget "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.6&os=linux&lang=en-US"

tar xvjf firefox-*.bz2

sudo cp -r firefox /usr/lib/firefox-3.6

sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox.old
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-3.6
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.6 /usr/bin/firefox

Answer 3

On ubuntu 11.04 you can easily install Firefox from the command line.
Get the amd64.deb packages from here :

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.24 on ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04 x86_64
http://www.crashrecovery.org/firefox/3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1/

installation : first remove all of your Firefox 5.0 stuff with dpkg -r or even
dpkg --purge, next install firefox, firefox-branding and firefox-gnome-support :

[acer30:root]:(~)# <b>dpkg -i firefox_3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb firefox-branding_3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb firefox-gnome-support_3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb

Answer 4

check out http://blog.troyastle.com/2011/06/downgrade-to-firefox-36-on-ubuntu-natty.html. Sometimes you need to do this if the owners of a website you need have put in code and/or features that are firefox version specific.