Trouble with Firefox 3.5 Download - Help

[seoulmagic]

I went to Mozilla to download Firefox 3.5. A message said I was opening a tar.bz2 file. I continued and then nothing happened. So I downloaded it again and then on my desktop appeared firefox-3.5.tar.bz2. I doubled clicked on and it took me to the archive manager from where I tried to open it or make it run. I tried this a number of times. Now I have on my desktop firefox-3.5(2).tar.bz2 and a number of firefox-3.5(2).tar.bz2part files in the bin which I can't empty. This has slowed my existing version of firefox down immensely. I'm very confused - I downloaded firefox3.5 on Windows XP at work today and it installed and ran instantly.Help please. I'm running gOS on a netbook. It's a review unit and I'm not the administrator but I have the administrator's password as he is my client.

Cheers

[Hal343]

Qualification-I don't use gOS, so this could be different.
In Ubuntu, I downloaded it to /home and extracted it there. It installed a folder, from which I presently use it, but I will replace my present installation with it shortly.
You should be able to remove it from whatever command-line tools you have, as administrator, and then download it again, rename the present directory to .bak extension, so that it is effectively disabled, then extract the new one and try it out. If it doesn't work properly, then you can remove it and reinstall the present one by renaming it to the original name.

[oz]

I'm not sure what gOS uses for its default package tool, but you will generally be better of using that for package installation. In some cases, you might have to wait for the package you want to show up in any repositories, or build it yourself.

Otherwise, the method mentioned by Hal343 has always worked for me when I've wanted to run Firefox that way. Renaming the old .mozilla folder keeps your old installation from being wiped out in case the new package doesn't work the way you want. Note that the .mozilla folder (with a dot in front of it) is a hidden folder so you'll need to set your file manager to view hidden folders/files in order to see it.

Have fun with Firefox 3.5!

[KingX]

If you have a previous version of firefox installed.. you can simply launch firefox as root and then "check for updates" under the "help" tab. That will download and install firefox for you.

[MikeTbob]

If you have a previous version of firefox installed.. you can simply launch firefox as root and then "check for updates" under the "help" tab. That will download and install firefox for you.

Never launch Firefox as root, you can just as easily update Firefox as a normal user.

[KingX]

Hrm.. I am aware of the risk posed by running firefox as root. But as a normal user the "check for updates" option is gray'd out. As a root I have set the homepage to "about:blank" and simply use it for updates only... no browsing

[MikeTbob]

I think the reason it is greyed out is because you need to be updating FF from your repos and not through Mozilla.