Comments on: How to Install Firefox 3 RC1 in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

By: TracyRosen

TracyRosen — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:38:41 +0000

Worked for me.
Thanks.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:12:24 +0000

When I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 I removed FF3 & reinstalled FF2 due to FF3 being a beta thus not supporting the plugins I use. It now appears that FF3 supports those plugins and now I would like to upgrade to FF3 RC1 from FF2 on Ubuntu 8.04. Will the above procedure work doing this or will I need to remove FF2 then install FF#? Any help for those of us who went back to FF2 after upgrading to 8.04 will be greatly appreciated!

By: glacialfury

glacialfury — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:56:02 +0000

I had the problems mentioned above with XULrunner, and basically, update manager not working like it was supposed to.

I went into the software sources, removed the one that’s listed here to add, and then re-ran update manager - everything worked fine then, and it found about 60 more updates than it had found before.

By: Water Guy

Water Guy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:52:42 +0000

Kasun,

Thanks for the reply. I am back to the official repos distribution now.

By: Robvdl

Robvdl — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:39:35 +0000

A much better way:

Go to System->Administration->Software Sources, tick proposed updates and update/dist-upgrade your machine.

Alternatively, just wait, I am sure sine it’s in proposed it will be included in due time in main

By: Kasun N.

Kasun N. — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:50:15 +0000

btw, the package name should be xulrunner-1.9 or something. Forcing the old version will bring you back to beta 5 after you reinstall firefox 3 from the repos.

By: Kasun N.

Kasun N. — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:48:05 +0000

sorry, English is not that good.

Water Guy,

search for xulrunner in synaptic package manager (make sure it’s selected; not marked for any action, just selected)
Then Go up to the bar where File, Edit and all the other options are displayed
Click on package
Move down the menu to force version
Select the version that contains any phrase or group of words with “beta 5″ or “bb5″ etc…

then proceed with the rest of my instructions

By: Water Guy

Water Guy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:44:59 +0000

Kasun,

Could you explain what you mean by:

3. Go to the xulrunner, go to the package tab and force the beta version of xulrunner.

How do I go to the xulrunner?

By: Water Guy

Water Guy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:39:54 +0000

I am having the same issue as Junior and am wondering what to do next. Is FF3RC1 now in the official repositories? Should we uninstall and reinstall from there?

By: Junior

Junior — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:07:59 +0000

I installed this last week, and it worked perfect! But now suddently update manager says that Firefox 3 is available, but it can only do a partial upgrade due to xlrunner can’t be marked.

I’m assuming that it’s this archive that is updating. What should I do?

By: Kasun N.

Kasun N. — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:50:59 +0000

Hey guys, in case you have upgraded using this method, but want to upgrade the official path later, follow these steps.

NOTE: I uses this when my updates one day kept on pestering me to run a partial upgrade and the two packages that weren’t being installed were xulrunner related.

1. Uninstall firefox (CHECK WHAT WILL BE REMOVED)
2. Remove the link above from your sources.
3. Go to the xulrunner, go to the package tab and force the beta version of xulrunner (if you try to uninstall and reinstall xulrunner, one of the removed files would be ubuntu-dekstop :-O)
4. Reinstall firefox and associated packages. boom, back to beta 5 with all your data intact.

By: George Nagy

George Nagy — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:18:31 +0000

It seems that the upgrade will go to the normal update repository soon: firefox 3 rc1 bits status

I was able to upgrade from the Proposed repository and so far so good. The regular update is due out any day now if all goes well. I just got impatient.

In Gnome’s Synaptic Package Manager:
1. Add the Proposed Repository
Settings > Repositories > Updates - Select Pre-released Updates - Hardy Proposed
Click the “Reload” tool bar button.

2. Search on keyword Firefox.
You should see a number of items with yellow stars. Mark all of those for upgrade.

QUIT OUT OF FIREFOX IF IT IS RUNNING. Just for safety.

3. Apply the changes. Disregard the other packages that are not being upgraded. (Those are proposed packages you may not be interested in yet.)

4. After the upgrade is complete, go back to Settings > Repositories > Updates and deselect Hardy Proposed.

By: NetWorker

NetWorker — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:29:01 +0000

This worked for me. No problems

By: Marius Cristian

Marius Cristian — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:56:23 +0000

“sudo firefox” -- very bad idea

I got “NS_ERORR_ …” message for every firefox start

Got better after “sudo chown -R : ~/.mozilla” (preceded by firefox reinstall I guess…)

By: [a different] Jason

[a different] Jason — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:26:58 +0000

Does anybody know when RC1 will be released in the normal Ubuntu update channels? I’d rather get it that way than risk screwing something up, but it would be nice to get rid of the beta.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:13:21 +0000

If you did sudo firefox and firefox is wrecked you can fix it with this line of code.
sudo chown -R : ~/.mozilla
Jason, you don’t need to come over now:)

Here is the original thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5003069#post5003069

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:57:30 +0000

Do not do anything on here. All bad ideas except not doing sudo firefox. Thanks for that Jason. I wish you could come over to my house and fix firefox for me. All my bookmarks are gone and foxmark can’t get them back. I wished I listened to Benny.

By: inclusivedisjunction

inclusivedisjunction — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:31:20 +0000

@Canalegrande:

Uninstall Firefox, and any other incompatible parts, like xulrunner. Remove ppa.lauchpad.net from your sources list, then reinstall Firefox.

By: Canalegrande

Canalegrande — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:25:24 +0000

This was a very bad idea.

Firefox did not open anymore.
Errors were:
ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file!
Stack Trace:
0:ENSURE_WARN(false,_installLocation: engine has no file!,2147500037)
1:()
2:()
3:()
4:epsGetAttr([object Object],alias)
5:()
6:SRCH_SVC_getEngineByAlias(http://whatever.com)
7:getEngineByAlias(http://whatever.com)
8:getShortcutOrURI(http://whatever.com,[object Object])
9:canonizeUrl([object MouseEvent],[object Object])
10:handleURLBarCommand([object MouseEvent])
11:onclick([object MouseEvent])

xulrunner version did also not fit. reinstall of rc5 failed, I am back to Opera.

is there a revert command or do I need to wait until the official sources have it?

By: Benny

Benny — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:17:57 +0000

Jason, I highly recommend against sudo firefox. I tried it myself a few weeks ago and it seriously messed up my entire browser. Personally I’d prefer to wait until it’s available for Hardy.