Kubuntu 12.04 Firefox 46 upgrade is broken

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Just a warning to anyone using an older version of Kubuntu. Yesterday an upgrade to FF 46 was pushed through and it WILL NOT work with 12.04 LTS. This is a known bug and if I had known I would have locked in at FF 45.0.2. I've read some instances of problems in versions of Kubuntu as high as versions 13 and 14.
 


The upgrade to 46 introduced Firefox built on GTK 3. Regular Ubuntu has issues with GTK3 so 12.04 will have even worse issues.
 
Just a warning to anyone using an older version of Kubuntu. Yesterday an upgrade to FF 46 was pushed through and it WILL NOT work with 12.04 LTS. This is a known bug and if I had known I would have locked in at FF 45.0.2. I've read some instances of problems in versions of Kubuntu as high as versions 13 and 14.
You still can. Just uninstall previous version via
Code:
sudo apt-get remove firefox
Then get firefox from an official repository mirror:
From software repository for version 45.0.2 (Oregon State University Open Source Lab mirror):
64-bit version: here
32-bit version: here

This should work. If it doesn't, reply to this post, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
 
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