Comments on: Upgrade to Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:32:43 +0000

The site http://www.browsershots.org shows you how the site renders in older browsers. It isn’t a substitute for testing functionality, but is a quick way to see how the page looks across multiple operating systems, browsers, and browser versions.

By: JohnDoe

JohnDoe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:42:29 +0000

ahh..makes sense. thanks for the clarification

By: gaarai

gaarai — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:23:07 +0000

I suppose that I should add to the post why I upgrade the way I do. As a web developer, I always like to have previous versions available for testing. Using a package to handle my upgrades will cause previous versions to be removed.

This method of installation is fast and provides me a list of older versions to use for testing.

By: JohnDoe

JohnDoe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:57:01 +0000

or you could always use the mozilla daily ppa *shrug*

for 9.10:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

older versions:
sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu UBUNTU_VERSION main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list”
sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 247510BE
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

(In the first command above for older versions, replace UBUNTU_VERSION in the line above with jaunty, intrepid or hardy, depending on your which one you’re on)