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.
Did I help you?
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)
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.
ahh..makes sense. thanks for the clarification 🙂
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.