Fedora 9 with Firefox 2
For whatever reason Fedora came with Firefox 3 Beta 5. Unfortunately most of the add-ons does not work with Firefox 3b5, yet. I use Bookmark Sync and Sort with WebDAV to synchronize work and home PC/laptop therefore I need Firefox 2 back! Firefox 3’s bookmark structure changed so updating this add-on will be a lot of work.
sudo yum remove firefox
sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-33
After that you should be able to download Firefox 2 directly from Mozilla.org and install it.
UPDATE: At the end I decided to give Firefox 3 another try since it’s now out of beta phase. As for bookmark synchronization, I am using Foxmarks as substitute. I still prefer storing my bookmarks on my own storage but it seems Foxmarks does the job, I also tried GMarks but it was painfully SLOW!
Category: Linux / SysAdmin
June 17th, 2008 at 2:40 am
Hi. Thanks. This works fine even on 64-bit (just add compat-libstdc++-33.i386).
I’m wondering though, how to start firefox 3 now. /usr/bin/firefox starts firefox 2 (located in /usr/local/firefox with a symlink in /usr/local/bin)