grey1beard writes: Can't update Firefox to 16.01
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2070397
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Title:
Downgrade from Firefox 16 to 15.0.1
Sorry, grey1beard had a connection problem. grey1beard writes: My apologies to
one and all for any time wasted.
It seems to me that I was led astray by the wicd icon on the top bar showing
what I took to be a connection made.
Then, when I then tried to sort out the perceived problem(getting
We're ready to push out 16.0.1 as soon as Mozilla releases it. Since
downgrading isn't easily done, this was the best option available.
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Since LP won't let me mark this as a duplicate of bug 1065586, marking
this invalid
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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Aside from the fact that downgrading is not very well supported or
tested, may carry extra risks to users (eg, broken profiles, downgrade
failures) and wastes build capacity and engineering resource that is
needed elsewhere, you'd rather we offered you a downgrade to a version
that reintroduces
As mentioned by Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson), since Firefox 16.0.1 has
already been published it is better to update once version 16.0.1 is in
the Ubuntu repos. There was a reason why 16.0 prompted Mozilla to take
it down from their main website. Synaptic can choose an older version
by Force
I'm well aware of the reason Mozilla pulled 16.0 and turned off updates,
thanks. But it is easy for them to do that without breaking their
updater (note, they didn't downgrade anybody) and without users
noticing.
We don't have a good way of doing that because when 16.0 is uploaded it
replaces the
