A Single Command Install of Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu
The final version of the Firefox 3.5 is now available for all major Operative Systems on Mozilla’s web site. Firefox downloads, as usual are not only on a per-OS basis, but also on a per-language basis. Firefox 3.5 maintains that tradition, it is availabe in over 50 different languages. “Your is certainly included”.
If you want to get Firefox 3.5 on your Ubuntu producton box, before Ubuntu offers you a Firefox 3.5 update, then, just copy and paste these lines of code below.
Back-up your current profile of Firefox 3.0.11 (or whatever version you have) with
1 | cp -r ~/.mozilla/firefox/ ~/firefox_backup |
This will backup your current Firefox profile into the firefox_backup directory in your Home Folder.
Now install Firefox 3.5 with
1 | 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 ~ |
Replace “en-US” with say “en-GB”, “It” “es-ES”, “es-AR”, etc etc. if you want Firefox respectively in English as in Great Britain, Italian, Spanish as in Spain or Spanish as in Argentina. Hit Here to have an classea.
To run Firefox 3.5, move to your Home Folder, look for the firefox directory. Double-click on the firefox file in that directory.
You can also run Firefox 3.5 from the command-line with ~/firefox/firefox .
You can now add it to your Applications Menu. Go to System->Preferences->Main Menu
In the “Command Field”: /home/username/firefox/firefox.
In the “Name field”: Firefox 3.5
Make sure Firefox 3.0.11 is closed before running firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 will begin with an update. It will update your Bookmarks, Browser History, Passwords. It will also update your Extensions and will check for compatibility.
What to do with Incompatible Add-ons.
Lifehacker proposes this:
- Type about:config into Firefox’s address bar and click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.
- Right-click anywhere. Choose New>Boolean. Make the name of your new config value extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.
- Make another new boolean pair called extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set the value to false.
- Restart Firefox.
Lifehacker: Make Your Extensions Work with the Firefox 3 Beta ~ also works with Firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 is the first browser to support open vclasseo formats, allowing movies to become part of today’s dynamic web pages without requiring a plug-in.
Now Watch This!!! A quick preview of Firefox 3.5′s new and exciting features.
Have your say on Mozilla’s fastest Firefox so far!!!
Download Firefox 3.5
[Update 1]
The Firefox stable is now at version 3.5.5, use this line of code to install it in your *buntu
1 | wget -O – http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5.5.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~ |
Install Firefox 3.6 beta 2 for testing with
1 | wget -O – http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6b2/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6b2.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~ |
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If you’re running Karmic (the current development branch), just install the firefox-3.5 package.
If you’re running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty), it’s available from the ubuntu-mozilla-security PPA
3:57 pm on July 2nd, 2009
After emptying the Firefox cache, I made a copy of my home .mozilla folder, and renamed it to .mozilla0 for safekeeping. Then I just went to the Firefox site, downloaded the installation file, and ran it. It created a firefox folder, which I stuck in /opt. It’s working fine, with almost all of the plugins I care about.
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5:17 pm on July 2nd, 2009
this is bad advice, it leaves ff 3.0 installed and runnable, you’re going to have 3.0 and 3.5 competing over the same profile if you’re not careful. imho, its better to point the /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 symlink to the executable to reduce the risk of accidently running both versions at once
8:57 pm on July 2nd, 2009
any idea how to get adobe flash working in firefox 3.5? tried copying the files over manually, but doesn’t seem to work
9:36 pm on July 2nd, 2009
@LEE FERREE: You should copy your missing plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins to ~/firefox/plugins.
10:03 pm on July 2nd, 2009
i tried that, but it doesn’t seem to work
one of them got marked as read-only, so i may need to fix that
thanks
10:06 pm on July 2nd, 2009
also, looks like it’s trying to pull from old source location
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
10:33 pm on July 2nd, 2009
Thanks for the post. I found this through Lifehacker and I’ll definitely be back. I am running AntiX and the tip for starting Firefox is just what I needed. I’m still learning Linux and need all the help I can find.
11:06 pm on July 2nd, 2009
@LEE FERREE: Are you on a 64bit? Anyway try this. Download flash_player.tar.gz here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Extract, you’ll find the “libflashplayer.so” file. Copy it to your plugins folder and retry.
11:38 pm on July 2nd, 2009
@Martin Kaba: Yes, 64-Bit. I tried what you said and it worked!! Thank you. Not sure why copying the same file, from my /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ folder didn’t work. Thanks again.
12:28 am on July 3rd, 2009
@ Lee Ferree: You’re welcome, all the best
12:39 am on July 3rd, 2009
Ran into another snag, seems ALL file associations are lost, EVEN “Open Containing Folder” from “Downloads”. I would reset them all manually, but by the time I do that, 3.5 will probably be available through the repos.
Any thoughts?
8:48 am on July 3rd, 2009
CHECK THIS:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion
there’s ALL you need to know
this way there is two instalations but they use
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the same libraries, addons, bookmarks etc. (i suppose
i went with the security testing packages and everything working OK
9:53 am on July 3rd, 2009
Compiling the source :
<a href=" http://www.h3manth.com/2009/07/installing-firefox-35.html"
1:45 pm on July 3rd, 2009
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Thanks for the tip, have done it and it’s working great.
10:34 pm on July 4th, 2009
@SCOUSER73: you’re welcome…
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8:54 pm on July 5th, 2009
Thanks.
Worked like a charm.
I copied your instructions into a local file, shut down Firefox 3.0.4, and installed and ran 3.5, no incident.
All my bookmarks, tabs, etc are there.
I did re-install my add-ons.
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10:15 am on July 7th, 2009
time to give FireFox 3.5 a try on xubuntu 9.04 installation: http://tr.im/xubff35 – can’t wait for Canonical to update their FireFox
8:52 pm on July 7th, 2009
#readitlater http://bit.ly/17fAs8
8:53 pm on July 7th, 2009
@Foomandoonian Nope. But you can still get it… http://bit.ly/17fAs8
9:39 pm on July 7th, 2009
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4:42 pm on July 8th, 2009
easy Firefox 3.5 install for Ubuntu users – http://tinyurl.com/lv5mr4
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2:47 am on July 30th, 2009
Hey I just tried to do this method, but when I try to run the new firefox, it does nothing. When i tried to run it in the terminal, it gave me this message:
~/firefox/firefox
/home/mark/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
could anyone tell me how to fix this problem?
6:16 am on August 14th, 2009
Or can install it with one small script (with automatic updates)
[http://www.earth-org.com/blogs/2009/08/install-genuine-firefox-3-5-latest-on-ubuntu/]
5:51 pm on August 19th, 2009
And how to remove it?
9:38 am on August 22nd, 2009
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4:42 am on August 23rd, 2009
After toying around with it for a while i feel that Its still not good enough to give up epiphany for. Is there anyway i can get rid of just firefox 3.5?
5:02 am on September 14th, 2009
Seems to not be working. 404 error on the link contained therein.
7:57 am on September 21st, 2009
Firefox is up to version 3.5.3 now. Just change the 3.5s in the command to 3.5.3 and you’re golden.
wget -O – http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5.3/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5.3.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~
That just worked for me.
4:38 am on October 18th, 2009
I installed Firefox 3.5, but I can’t open the prefences window; it keeps giving me a message like this: XML Parsing error: undefined entity. Location: chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences Line number 25, Column 1:
^
I’d appreciate if someone can help me with this, thanks
8:26 am on December 15th, 2009
install ff manualy; http://www.kabatology.com/07/01/a-single-command-install-of-firefox-3-5-on-ubuntu/
11:34 am on February 21st, 2010
I’m unable to find firefox 3.5. Please someone give me the link so that i could download the older version of firefox.
Thanks!