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fmjrey

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Registered: 2009-08-19

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Any way to get FF3, can't upgrade to FF4 yet

Just wondering if that would be possible to get a firefox3 and xulrunner1 packages for those people that don't want to upgrade to FF4 yet for whatever reason.
Not upgrading is not really a solution because FF3 is still getting important security fixes and right now I found no way to get them on Arch.
For example FF3.6.16 has important security fixes that require immediate attention:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3. … easenotes/
How can I get them on my system?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Any way to get FF3, can't upgrade to FF4 yet

you can just use the old PKGBUILDs for xul and firefox and build 3.6.16

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Any way to get FF3, can't upgrade to FF4 yet

This is a site that keeps outdated packages:

http://schlunix.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/

But, i don't think any future 3.6.x versions will be present there. So wonder's suggestion is the way to go.

stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

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Re: Any way to get FF3, can't upgrade to FF4 yet

There is this AUR package by ngoonee: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15638 but apparently there are build problems...

Edit: you could also get a pre-built firefox from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla … inux-i686/. I just tried it and it appears to run correctly (under Arch 32 bit.)

Last edited by stqn (2011-03-25 19:30:03)

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,360

Re: Any way to get FF3, can't upgrade to FF4 yet

There is this AUR package by ngoonee: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15638 but apparently there are build problems...

Edit: you could also get a pre-built firefox from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla … inux-i686/. I just tried it and it appears to run correctly (under Arch 32 bit.)

Yes, I made that package for this very reason but it just stopped building recently, and I haven't had time to look into it yet.

Pre-built firefox is a good idea, but long-term there'd be library problems etc. (which is also a problem with the package, of course).

EDIT: And a helpful commenter on the AUR has pointed me to the right patch. firefox3 is back up and running as of now

Last edited by ngoonee (2011-03-25 21:30:20)

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