Installing firefox 3.5

Paste the below commnads one after the other , or paste it in a file with
#!/bin/bash as the starting line { save it as ff and chmod 777} and say ./ff

Download from :mozilla

sudo tar -jxvf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 -C /opt
sudo mv /opt/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins.bak
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins
sudo rm /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libtotem_mozilla.*
sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/firefox
firefox&

Thats it :)

Or just use the hack by Kevin Purdy to install FireFox :

wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/linux-i... | tar xj -C ~

More info :

downloadstats Worldwide Real-Time Firefox Downloads .

Sneak Peek: What's On Tap for Firefox in 2010 Firefox 3.6

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