The Corrosive One

I recently needed to downgrade firefox, in order to install firesheep in my linux distro.

So here is how you do it… goto a folder (like Downloads)

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.11/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.11.tar.bz2

cp -R ~/.mozilla ~/.mozillabackup
sudo tar -C /opt -jxvf firefox-3*.tar.bz2
sudo mv /opt/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins.old
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

Credit to: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1477159