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orjanp

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From: Tromsoe, Norway

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 347

[Solved]Downgrade Firefox to 3.5.7. Getting a 'Couldn't load XPCOM'.

Hi!

I need to downgrade Firefox to 3.5.x from 3.6.2 in order to try to get Vmware console plugin to work. There is an issue with Firefox 3.6 and the Vmware console plugin. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/252218

I have downgraded Firefox to 3.5.7, xulrunner to 1.9.1.7 and nss to 3.12.4.

But when i try to run Firefox I get an error:

$ firefox
Couldn't load XPCOM.

I have also tried to remove the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory. No luck.

Does anyone know what might be wrong?

Last edited by orjanp (2010-04-13 09:39:30)

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Ørjan Pettersen

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [Solved]Downgrade Firefox to 3.5.7. Getting a 'Couldn't load XPCOM'.

downgrading using older binaries packages would not work because xulrunner needs to be rebuild against libpng 1.4.1. the best thing is to compile older xulrunner and firefox.

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orjanp

Member

From: Tromsoe, Norway

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 347

Re: [Solved]Downgrade Firefox to 3.5.7. Getting a 'Couldn't load XPCOM'.

So I would need to find an older PKGBUILD for both Firefox and xulrunner?

Does anyone know where those might be found?

EDIT: I did find it in the wiki

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dow … he_Package

Last edited by orjanp (2010-04-13 06:15:28)

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Ørjan Pettersen

orjanp

Member

From: Tromsoe, Norway

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 347

Re: [Solved]Downgrade Firefox to 3.5.7. Getting a 'Couldn't load XPCOM'.

Thanks for the tip. I rebuilt xulrunner and installed it over again. And it works now.

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