How to Install Firefox 3 RC1 in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Posted by admin on May 26th, 2008 
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Now you need to Third-Party Software tab and click Add
Add the following line and click on add source
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu hardy main
After adding new source list you can see similar to the following screen and click on close
Now you need to click on reload in the following screen
Install firefox 3 RC1 in Ubuntu
open a terminal and try to use the following comamnds
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
This will install the firefox 3 RC1 from the source list we have added.
Firefox 3 RC1 in Action
May 26th, 2008 at 6:13 am
After installing Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1, the language packages (xulrunner) are not recognized. Any help would be appreciated.
Don’t install this upgrade if you want to keep your language packs.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:29 am
So it won’t hit Hardy for real any time soon?
May 26th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Why don’t you use the update function inside FireFox? Hardy has FireFox 3 beta already so all we need to do is to open FireFox, navigate to Help menu, click Check for Updates… and then click Update when FireFox asks you for.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Gnuman, you are wrong. The Ubuntu version of Firefox does not have the update function. It is supposed to be handled by Ubuntu itself.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Please dont send users to unofficial PPAs. If you want to get it now for hardy, use the “semi-official” ubuntu mozillateam archive:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive
Please update your blog post content.
Thanks!
May 26th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
admin, I’ve been told that your post is confusing because you list another unrelated PPA. Could you please either hide/blur adnarim from your screenshots, or redo those screenshots without it ?
btw, thanks for listing my PPA
May 26th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
sudo firefox. then check for updates will be available.
May 26th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
@fta
i have updated the screenshots with red marks for clear understanding
May 27th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
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?
May 28th, 2008 at 2:31 am
@Canalegrande:
Uninstall Firefox, and any other incompatible parts, like xulrunner. Remove ppa.lauchpad.net from your sources list, then reinstall Firefox.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:57 am
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.
May 28th, 2008 at 5:13 am
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
May 28th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
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.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
“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…)
June 1st, 2008 at 7:29 am
This worked for me. No problems
June 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
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.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 am
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.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
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?
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
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?
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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?
June 5th, 2008 at 3:48 am
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
June 5th, 2008 at 3:50 am
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.
June 8th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
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
June 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Kasun,
Thanks for the reply. I am back to the official repos distribution now.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:56 am
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.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
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!
September 20th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Worked for me.
Thanks.