[CentOS] Installing old version of firefox

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 11/14/2014 12:02 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
>> I need to install firefox version 24.3.0 on centos version 6.5. Anyone
>> know how I can do that? I tried downloading that version directly and
>> it fails with:
>>
>> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib64/firefox/libxul.so:
>> libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> There are going to be many dependencies
> , so you will need to use yum to install an older firefox (if you are
> using the CentOS version).
>
> NSS/NSPR version minimums are going to apply for firefox, so you will
> not be able to go back very far.
>
> But that is OK as most firefox upgrades are critical anyway, so browsing
> the web with outdated versions will be very dangerous anyway .. hint,
> don't do that.

This is not for browsing, it's about running live server tests
with selenium. The machine the tests have been running on had FF
24.3.0 and it died. The new machine has 31.2.0 and the tests are
failing. I want to see if it's due to the different version.