Comments on: How to install firefox 3.6 stable from ubuntu ppa

By: Bob-El

Bob-El — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:01:39 +0000

I’ve got Firefox 3.6.3 running just fine but how do I install the Java plugin - Version 6 Update 20? The repository seems to be several versions behind.

By: Rama

Rama — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:00:53 +0000

@Jerad

No. The new LTS only has Firefox 3.5

Ubuntu / Canonical really needs to get new versions of Mozilla based applications out faster!

By: Jerad

Jerad — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:19:40 +0000

@florian

Thankfully in about 15 days you won’t have to worry about it because the next LTS will be out and Ubuntu will offer to upgrade you to that (which will have FF 3.6 by default)

By: florian

florian — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:04:50 +0000

I followed this instructions step by step, everything installed, but firefox can’t be started. The FF icon in the taskbar changed to a globe icon with the tooltip text “Namoroka Web Browser”, clicking onto that does nothing!

The previous version of FF does not work anymore too.

I am using Ubuntu 8.04.

Why is it always nearly impossible to install new software on ubuntu. I am using ubuntu now for almost 3 years and it NEVER worked as written in the tutorials!

By: freddy

freddy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:04:43 +0000

@Martin Bajer, sorry to hear that it didn’t work for you, maybe you can try other suggestions on that link:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/379761

By: Martin Bajer

Martin Bajer — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:24:08 +0000

@freddy
Hi freddy, thanks for your link. I tried it, Fonts remains the same.
http://fict10n.net/screenshot-Firefox.png
http://fict10n.net/screenshot-Epiphany.png

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:56:44 +0000

Please note that firefox-3.6 from this ppa is broken - it doesn’t support java at all.

Default ubuntu version works with icedtea browser plugin just fine.

By: André

André — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:31:26 +0000

I tried but firefox remove google search from search box, in fact it only let me to use ask.com

By: Oceanwatcher

Oceanwatcher — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:58:44 +0000

Great link. Pity it does not work… Have installed the getdeb repo. Doing and update and upgrade in a terminal produces this:

Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/apps/f/filezilla/filezilla_3.3.1-1~getdeb1_i386.deb 302 Found
Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/apps/f/filezilla/filezilla-common_3.3.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb 302 Found

BTW - I am on Kubuntu 9.10 with KDE 4.3.5. Just updated Firefox to 3.6.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:27:16 +0000

If you are running ubuntu 9.10 you can install latest version of filezilla from here http://www.getdeb.net/software/FileZilla

By: Oceanwatcher

Oceanwatcher — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:31:54 +0000

I have been looking long and hard for a ppa for the latest version of Filezilla. Does anyone know of something like this? Would LOVE to upgrade to the latest version…

By: freddy

freddy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:49:54 +0000

Don’t know why it doesn’t show the my whole post.. anyway check here Martin Bajer:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/379761/comments/47

By: freddy

freddy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:46:42 +0000

@Martin Bajer

Try this:

1. Open terminal
2. gedit ~/.fonts.config
3.enter the following text and save it:

true

By: amirman

amirman — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:37:53 +0000

found this elsewhere, it’s the terminal command for adding the GPG key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys CE49EC21

By: Gary Wieman

Gary Wieman — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:18:01 +0000

How do you install the keys that are needed to access launchpad when installing in Hardy?

By: Martin Bajer

Martin Bajer — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:05:30 +0000

Hi,
I installed these packages:
firefox
firefox-3.6
firefox-branding
firefox-gnome-support
firefox-3.6-gnome-support
ubufox

1) Firefox uses bold, terrible antialiased fonts in menus nad for rendering webpages as well. How to tune Firefox to look as native GNOME application? Why Firefox do not respect default GNOME appearance on the 1st place?

2) How to tell Firefox to use font 10px? Font settings have only partial efect.

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:05:45 +0000

great….now how do i run it?

By: freddy3980

freddy3980 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:00:13 +0000

Thank for this post!

@Jerad, its actually Firefox 3.6, enjoy.

@Tom, thanks for the new command

By: davide

davide — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:29:59 +0000

GPG key ?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:49:00 +0000

Thanks, and good tip @Marco, I just added the ppa:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

Then used update manager, check for updates etc, then had ff 3.6 installed
[running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic]