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Right now I'm running Jaunty with Firefox 3.0......... Thats what it comes with I tried adding FF3.6 using some instructions, adding the repository etc.. BUT.. that was aimed at Karmic ...
  1. 01-27-2010 #1
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    What is the ""Correct" way to upgrade to Firefox 3.6?

    Right now I'm running Jaunty with Firefox 3.0......... Thats what it comes with

    I tried adding FF3.6 using some instructions, adding the repository etc.. BUT.. that was aimed at Karmic users and it triggured all sorts of dependency errors in Synaptic. So things got a bit screwed up. God knows what version I have installed now but it sure isn't 3.6!

    So tomorrow I plan to do a clean install of of Jaunty. Then I'd like to upgrade to Firefox 3.6. What is the correct and clean way of doing that, adding the correct repository this time? I want to replace 3.0 with 3.6 not have both versions on my system.

    Thanks for any help!
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  2. 01-28-2010 #2
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    Is there anyone who can advise me on this??
    By my thinking if I just got to the Mozilla website and download it I'll have two versions on my PC and no links to updates patches etc.
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    I used UbuntuZilla. It's a script which update to the lastest version of FireFox

    You can download it here:
    h.ttp://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntuzilla/files/

    After installing, open a terminal and start "ubuntuzilla.py" (without quotes), then follow instructions

    (delete the dot in h.ttp... i put it there because i haven't 15 posts and i can't post urls)
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  4. 01-28-2010 #4
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    oxf... you can also download the latest Firefox directly from the Mozilla website, extract the files to your /home folder, then run it from there by clicking the firefox executable file if you wish.
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  5. 01-28-2010 #5
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    What Ozar said but extract to /opt (requires root) so that all users can have the benefit. Eventually an official upgrade will come along.
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