How to install and Download Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu Linux

Posted by max On October - 13 - 2009

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Linux has become really popular these days and many different flavors of Linux are being used on personal computers all over the globe. Ubuntu is one among them and is available for free online as well as you can order the CD on Ubuntu’s official website. Firefox is by default integrated with most versions of Linux, so if you install Firefox 3.5 then it will overwrite the existing version of Firefox. All the bookmarks and history will not be lost however some Firefox add-ons may require updating. If you don’t like the latest version of Firefox then you can downgrade to the previous version anytime.

Installing Firefox from a Tar file in Linux

Download Firefox from the Firefox official website and it will be downloaded in your home directory.
Open a Terminal and extract the contents of the downloaded file.
cd ~
tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2
Close Firefox if it’s open.
To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder.
~/firefox/firefox
Firefox should now start. You can then create an icon on your desktop to run this command.

You may need to install the required libraries for Firefox to work as many distributions don’t include libstdc++5 by default.

You can have a look at this post to know more how to take complete and partial screenshots of webpage using Firefox addon.