Firefox-bin 17.0 broken, how to revert to 16.0.2?

[fdelente]

Hello.

I have just emerged FF 17.0, but (at least with sawfish) it doesn't display correctly (window doesn't to maximize to state the problem).

I'd like to revert to firefox-bin-16.0.2, I tried using eselect or emerge www-client/firefox-16.0.2 but (not surprisingly) didn't work.

Help please!

Thanks :^)

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F. Delente

[wolfieh]

put this line on your /etc/portage/package.mask

>www-client/firefox-bin-16.0.2

then re-emerge it

emerge -av1 firefox-bin

[BillWho]

fdelente,

Just mask www-client/firefox-bin-17.0 and emerge firefox-bin
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Good luck

Since installing gentoo, my life has become one long emerge

[fdelente]

Thanks guys!! :^)

I guess I'll need to remove the line from package.mask if I want to upgrade later?

[genstorm]

ofc
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

[Hu]

In this case, it would be better to mask >=www-client/firefox-bin-17, so that any future bumps to the -16 series are accepted.