[Bradford] eeepc and firefox blunder

[Philip Wyett]

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:35 +0100, David Carpenter wrote:
> My friends eee pc firefox crapped out the other day. He siad he'd been
> to a site, got some javascript error, and then from then on firefox just
> opens up and crashes immediately.
> 
> In my infinite wisdom, I thought I'd just uninstall it and re-install
> it.
> 
> I used synaptic to uninstall it, then found out it's not available in
> the Xandros repositories to re-install.
> 
> A bit of googling confirms this is the case, and ended up with me
> finding solutions/hacks for installing firefox 3 and all sorts of
> things.
> 
> My friend still uses the eee pc in the simple graphical mode, so there
> are loads of icons linked to opening firefox (e.g. google docs,
> internet, and some others - seems like a lot)
> 
> So really I'd just like to get firefox 2.0.0.11 back in the little slot
> where it came from and all will be fine, otherwise I'll need to
> reconfigure each desktop icon.......
> 
> Any ideas? Is there another repository I could enable to help here (some
> documentation on the web about 'safe repositories but a little
> uncertain)
> 
> It's a version 900 eee pc.

The deb repo pools live at:

  http://update.eeepc.asus.com/

There is a firefox 2.0.0.14-1asus3 in:

  http://update.eeepc.asus.com/1.6/pool/common/

Regards

Phil
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