Comments on: Installing Firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 on Ubuntu 9.04

By: Install Firefox in Ubuntu: the easy way

Install Firefox in Ubuntu: the easy way — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:47:20 +0000

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By: Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:11:14 +0000

Big Thanks! I've installed Firefox 3.6 in the same way. Works great!

By: Itsme

Itsme — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:11:00 +0000

"all easy steps"… WTF??? read this carefully almighty linux users: DOUBLE CLICK IT! That is simple, not typing the whole "Crime and Punishment" to install a tiny program.

By: penggull

penggull — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:39:09 +0000

If I follow these instructions the newest version of Firefox starts up all right, but I get a 'Server not found' error regardless of what page I try to get to…

Anybody have any suggestions?

By: Cam

Cam — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:07:18 +0000

Yeah, it is installs like this that keep most people on Windows. It is just so much easier with Windows.

By: BrainBUG

BrainBUG — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:09:16 +0000

Very good instructions…. all easy steps and working very well!

Thanks a lot!

By: RichB

RichB — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:50:37 +0000

This install is causing me a headache. Now everything (i.e., Thunderbird, Liferea) that relies on gnome can't open things in Firefox.

By: Talal Arshad

Talal Arshad — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:36:25 +0000

A better and easy way.. http://yomahol.blogspot.com/2009/08/best-way-for-...

By: ZeroFossilFuel

ZeroFossilFuel — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:35:22 +0000

Thank you so much for this information! It's been over a month since 3.5 was released and it's still not available in Ubuntu Update Manager. I'm using 9.04 BTW.

There is a 3.5.1 showing up at this time in Synaptic but when installed does not add any menu shortcuts.

Bugs like this are what keep most people addicted to windoze.

By: 1Earth

1Earth — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:21:27 +0000

Hi, yeah it should be OK to delete the 3.0.11 folder – your settings and stuff are stored somewhere else.

By: 1Earth

1Earth — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:20:18 +0000

It's a pleasure. So far upgrades and installations were relatively painless – I think if we waited for a while, Firefox would eventually offer the upgrade through the Check For Updates option in the Help Menu, which would probably have been a 1 click affair. I don't know why this had to be so complicated.

But anyway, I'm happy you got sorted

By: Firefox 3.5 « Cirko Mariano im Exil

Firefox 3.5 « Cirko Mariano im Exil — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:45:09 +0000

[...] Die neueste Version des Browsers ist noch nicht in die Ubuntu-Repositorys eingepflegt worden, aber über Umwege lässt sie sich manuell installieren. Erster [...]

By: Eric Z

Eric Z — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:29:59 +0000

Thank you for the information. Before I found your blog on this topic it was becoming a pain in the butt just to figure out how to install firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu. I enjoy Linux and glad it's here, it gives me a choice but as far as ease of use is concerned, it still has a ways to go before it's as easy to use as Windoze . It's gotten better over the years. When Red Hat was a popular distro for the desktop it was even worse to install "packages" that didn't use rpm. Anyway, thanks!

By: David

David — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:42:59 +0000

Nice, totally helpful. But what happens to firefox 3.0.11? Is it ok to delete it's folder, since you won't need it again?