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Rollback/downgrade using apt-get

Davide Bocci pointed out in a comment that there’s an easy solution to the problems with Ubuntu’s Firefox 1.0.4 package that can be accomplished with apt-get.

Through specifying package versions, it’s possible to rollback to something that’s not quite cutting edge. In Firefox’s case, observe:

sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox=1.0.2-0ubuntu5 mozilla-firefox-gnome-support=1.0.2-0ubuntu5

Thanks Davide!