[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)

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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