Installing firefox 3.5 « Ubuntu Blog

Paste the below commnads one after the other , or paste it in a file with

#! /bin/bash as the starting line { save it as ff and chmod 777} and say ./ff

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sudo tar -jxvf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 -C /opt

sudo mv /opt/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins.bak

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins

sudo rm /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libtotem_mozilla.*

sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu –rename /usr/bin/firefox

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

sudo chown -R root:root /opt/firefox

firefox&

Thats it

Or just use the hack by Kevin Purdy to install FireFox :

wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~

More info :

downloadstats Worldwide Real-Time Firefox Downloads .

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