Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04
Well today the much anticipated speedy Firefox 3.5 arrived. Ubuntu probably won't push this one out as an update and I am not sure when Firefox's own auto-update would provide this upgrade, so if you're impatient as I, this is how to install it manually. Do read the whole thing through before deciding whether to do this, as there are some potential plugin issues involved! Installation procedure First you need to download and extract in an appropriate place. I'm extracting to /opt/firefox-3.5 such as to avoid collisions later when an official Ubuntu version is available: casper@workstation/$ cd /opt/ casper@workstation/opt/$ sudo wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 casper@workstation/opt/$ sudo tar -xjf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 casper@workstation/opt/$ sudo mv firefox firefox-3.5 casper@workstation/opt/$ sudo rm firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 -f Perhaps you notice that the download is a i686/32bit Linux release, this...