Firefox 3.7

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jun 30 21:21:27 UTC 2010


On 06/30/2010 01:31 PM, Martin Webster wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 21:14 +0800, Bill Liao wrote:
> 
>> How to put firefox 3.7 into use? I downloaded it from mozilla. After
>> decompression, what to do? 
> 
> The latest stable version of Firefox is 3.6.6. Indeed Firefox 3.7 has
> been dropped and the next scheduled release after 3.6.7 is Firefox 4.
> 
> If you want to run the nightly build (that you've already extracted)
> simply open a terminal and type the following:
> 
> sudo mv firefox /usr/local/
> cd /usr/local/bin
> sudo ln -s ../firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/
> firefox
> 
> 

Safer if you just run it in a home folder. That way you won't run into
issues later on with the Ubuntu version.

@Bill:

Extract to a home folder and simply run it from there;

$ /home/<username>/firefox/firefox







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