Comments on: Howto install Firefox 3 Beta 2 in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

By: Michael Mais

Michael Mais — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:36:44 +0000

What about updating this site to “Upgrading to Firefox 4.beta in Lucid / Maverick?

Its easy to follow, but a little out of date. Thanks

By: tolearnfree

tolearnfree — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:02:18 +0000

hii friend, may you give me link to download chrome for linux? thanks before

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:02:30 +0000

How do you get tor to work? When I check my ip from a website, it’s still identifying the old browser when tor is activated, even though I’m connecting with FF3 (yes, I checked help/about to be sure)

By: aldo

aldo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:00:25 +0000

hey i follow the instructions for the installation, but it was firefox 3.0, everything came out as expected but one thing, all the information about bookmarks, themes, home page was lost.
is there something im not doing well of i need to retrieve that?

thanks for the help !!

By: Ermanno

Ermanno — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:48:20 +0000

I wrote a couple of script to automate the install: http://www.blogmanno.com/?q=node/72

By: Rodrigo Kulb

Rodrigo Kulb — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:57:23 +0000

Hehehehe

apt-get install firefox-3.0

baybay…

By: Jamea

Jamea — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:46:36 +0000

Well, i have tried to install firefox 3 three times with three different ways of doing it and I still have firefox 2 installed. Not sure what’s going wrong.

By: kerml

kerml — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:08:35 +0000

It works with firefox 3 final on ubuntu 7.10 gutsy too.
Thanks.

By: augustose

augustose — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:21:39 +0000

Great ! tnks it helps me a lot !

By: hani

hani — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:14:12 +0000

i was trying to install firefox 3 beta 4, but i screwed my firefox 2.1
now i have only firefox 3 that is very unstable how can i get rid of if and go back to firefox 2.1. H E L P.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:02:15 +0000

try this for flash plugin make it work thanks to daniel

To get Flash working in FF3, run this command

sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/* /usr/lib/firefox3preb3/plugins

By: francisco

francisco — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:57:57 +0000

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuufff
ok this was a great experience for me, I tried then it worked but, I couldn’t see any movies or anything so I wanted to go back then I had to try Chris how to, to go back to firefox 2, after I found out that Grandparadiso ****”"”"is”"”"**** firefox beta3
thanks anyways

By: krishna

krishna — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:53:49 +0000

You can now install the latest Beta RC by enabling backports and then apt-get’ing firefox-3.0. This is the best way to do the install as it won’t replace or override your firefox 2 install - it will even make new ~/.mozilla/firefox-3.0 profile settings (although it will import your settings from firefox 2, it won’t replace them).

to install your plugins (eg, flash), just sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/* /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins (or ln -s, either will work)

i’d definitely recommend doing the install this way, as you won’t have any problems with this beta 3 replacing your stable 2 (although as far as i can tell, 3 is definitely stable enough now for normal use)

By: Adross

Adross — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:35:58 +0000

You can unzip the tar.gz file and install firefox 3 in a similiar fashion to it’s windows counter part. This is just provides a more elegant install.

By: Alberto

Alberto — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:38:35 +0000

Hi I have a dual boot win/ubuntu laptop. I’ve just installed Firefox 3 Beta 2 on Windows in a single simple step (double click the exe). Why is this task so bizantine in Ubuntu?

By: Kansu

Kansu — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:40:15 +0000

Chris and Darkshade,
Either cd into the directory that contains your downloaded firefox-3.0b2.tar.bz2 file or specify the path to this file in your command. That is:

either do the following if firefox-3.0b2.tar.bz2 was saved to, for instance, your Desktop:

cd ~/Desktop

and then do sudo tar -C /opt -jxvf firefox-3.0b2.tar.bz2

sudo tar -C /opt -jxvf ~/Desktop/firefox-3.0b2.tar.bz2

By: Goran

Goran — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:34:28 +0000

This is really annoying: I cant get the flash plug-in to work, nor can I reinstall FF2.
This how-to sucks…

By: darkshado

darkshado — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:12:26 +0000

tar: firefox-3.0b2.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Same problem! With the instruction

sudo tar -C /opt -jxvf firefox-3.0b2.tar.bz2

somthing wrong…

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:56:29 +0000

With me the terminal says when I try to unpack the tar.bz2:

tar: firefox-3.0b2.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

What is the problem?????

kind regards, Chris

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:28:49 +0000

I managed to roll back to Firefox 2 by doing:

Code:

$ sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox
$ sudo rm /opt/firefox
$ sudo dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/bin/firefox
$ sudo apt-get install firefox --reinstall

I will wait for the official Firefox 3 release. I looking forward to it but I can not stand a minute without AdBlock.