Topic: [solved] Latest Firefox
What's the best way of getting Firefox 3.5 on here? Should I just download an archive and extract it over what I've got or should I add a PPA - if so which one?
Last edited by Toolz (2009-06-29 08:27:20)
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Re: [solved] Latest Firefox
Toolz wrote:
or should I add a PPA - if so which one?
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-d … rchive/ppa
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Thanks that seemed to do it. It was the 'daily' that stopped me adding before - I guessed it referred to 3.6 nightlies.
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Omns, thanks for the mozilla daily ppa link. I tried firefox-3.5 and lost my bookmarks. So i went the daily, running firefox-3.6a1pre everything good now.
Re: [solved] Latest Firefox
I haven't really looked into it but I do have firefox-3.5 on my machine but my default browser is still 3.01. How do I switch my default browser over?
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Any instructions for #! 8.10.02?
I've been reading several resources but being a true noob am not really sure which way to go, as they all refer to Jaunty, not Intrepid...
http://www.ubuntusolutions.org/2009/07/ … aunty.html
http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/1 … buntu.html
http://lifehacker.com/5306169/install-f … ne-command
http://ubuntuzilla.wiki.sourceforge.net/
TIA,
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Just use the Ubuntu Mozilla Daily PPA as omns suggested:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-d … rchive/ppa
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Thank you, anonymous. I did just that, but ended up with a parallel installed version of 3.5pre 'shiretoko' instead of the final... I guess I will have to wait for the proper version to be made available through the official repos. 
Last edited by Midas (2009-07-04 19:59:09)
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Did you make sure to run "sudo apt-get update" after adding the PPA? The PPA I posted has Firefox 3.5.1 (builds after the final version).
Also I don't think Hardy/Intrepid/Jaunty will get Firefox 3.5 since its not a security update. Maybe it will be in the backports, otherwise you'll just have to wait for Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10).
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Just downloading and extracting the tarball from mozilla is another option until an official release. I just extracted it into a folder in my home directory and run it from there. It works fine. You could also extract it into /opt if you wanted it system wide.
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Great! Now on 9.04.01, followed omns solution. Much better... Thanks! 
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After 3.5 appeared in the repos I struggled with that then I went back to the 'downloading the archive' solution and now I've just tried Ubuntuzilla:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/
Now running 3.5.3 - it looks like this is the solution I'll be going with.
Re: [solved] Latest Firefox
Ubuntuzilla seems to work quite well. However the fonts in firefox 3.5.3 look like garbage. Any idea how to fix this?