One of my all-time most popular posts was how to upgrade to Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu 9.04. Now it’s Firefox 3.6’s turn to be installed on my system that is now running Ubuntu 9.10.
The team working on Firefox have put a ton of effort into this release and, in order to make our browsing lives safer and faster, rolled a number of features scheduled for 3.7 into this release. Thanks for all the hard work guys.
Read the 3.6 release announcement for details about what is new with this release.
So now onto the installation. Here are the commands that I ran in terminal to install 3.6.
[chris@rommie ~]$ cd /tmp/ [chris@rommie /tmp]$ wget "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.6&os=linux&lang=en-US" --2010-01-21 11:41:08-- http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.6&os=linux&lang=en-US Resolving download.mozilla.org... 63.245.209.58 Connecting to download.mozilla.org|63.245.209.58|:80... connected. ... 100%[=============================>] 10,161,471 924K/s in 11s 2010-01-21 11:41:20 (899 KB/s) - `firefox-3.6.tar.bz2' saved [10161471/10161471] [chris@rommie /tmp]$ tar xvjf firefox-*.bz2 tar: Record size = 8 blocks firefox/ firefox/update.locale firefox/plugins/ firefox/plugins/libnullplugin.so ... firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js firefox/libmozjs.so [chris@rommie /tmp]$ sudo cp -r firefox /usr/lib/firefox-3.6 [sudo] password for chris: [chris@rommie /tmp]$ sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox.old [chris@rommie /tmp]$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-3.6 [chris@rommie /tmp]$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.6 /usr/bin/firefox
Simply run each command listed in white in your terminal to upgrade your system with the latest release version of Firefox.
After running these commands, close out Firefox, wait a few seconds to let everything shut down properly, and run Firefox again. If all the steps were executed properly and without error, you should be running 3.6. You can click Help > About Mozilla Firefox to confirm.
Happy browsing.