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I'm still running Ubuntu 8.10, anyone get the release running there yet and want to share how they did it? Ideally I'd like to avoid trashing my old 3.0.11 inst

I'm still running Ubuntu 8.10, anyone get the release running there yet and want to share how they did it? Ideally I'd like to avoid trashing my old 3.0.11 install or profile...

andyn 17y ago
I have to run various versions of Firefox for testing purposes. What I've done is to download the binary from their homepage and then run them with the appropriate command line: /path/to/firefox2 -no-remote -P ff2 /path/to/firefox3 -no-remote -P ff3 -no-remote allows me to run separate profiles at the same time, -P specifies a profile name. So they don't run updates on, or ruin the other profile. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
- Davertron 17y ago
  Here's what I did (using andyn's method): Download the linux version of firefox 3.5 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.5&os=linux&lang=en-US http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=... Untar and unzip firefox-3.5.tar.bz2: tar xjf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 Move the new firefox 3.5 directory to /usr/lib: sudo mv ./firefox /usr/lib/firefox-3.5 Create a shell script to run firefox using andyn's params. Create a file (I called it firefox.sh) in /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/ with the following contents: #!/bin/bash /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox -no-remote -P <profile_name> Note: Substitude <profile_name> with whatever you want to call your Firefox 3.5 profile; just make sure when prompted at first-run you create a new profile with the same name. Make the shell script executable: sudo chmod u+x /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox.sh Simlink the shell script into the /usr/bin dir, or somewhere on your path: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox.sh /usr/bin/firefox3.5 Run the script from the command line using: firefox3.5 Enjoy!
  - mattyb 17y ago
    For those of you who want 'firefox' to run 3.5 with your current 3.0 profile, you can do the following: tar xjvf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 sudo mv ./firefox /usr/lib/firefox-3.5 cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox firefox-3.5 sudo rm -f firefox sudo ln -s firefox-3.5 firefox You can run 3.0 by using 'firefox-3.0', which should already exist.

I'm still running Ubuntu 8.10, anyone get the release running there yet and want to share how they did it? Ideally I'd like to avoid trashing my old 3.0.11 install or profile...

andyn 17y ago

I have to run various versions of Firefox for testing purposes. What I've done is to download the binary from their homepage and then run them with the appropriate command line: /path/to/firefox2 -no-remote -P ff2 /path/to/firefox3 -no-remote -P ff3 -no-remote allows me to run separate profiles at the same time, -P specifies a profile name. So they don't run updates on, or ruin the other profile. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

Davertron 17y ago
Here's what I did (using andyn's method): Download the linux version of firefox 3.5 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.5&os=linux&lang=en-US http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=... Untar and unzip firefox-3.5.tar.bz2: tar xjf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 Move the new firefox 3.5 directory to /usr/lib: sudo mv ./firefox /usr/lib/firefox-3.5 Create a shell script to run firefox using andyn's params. Create a file (I called it firefox.sh) in /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/ with the following contents: #!/bin/bash /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox -no-remote -P <profile_name> Note: Substitude <profile_name> with whatever you want to call your Firefox 3.5 profile; just make sure when prompted at first-run you create a new profile with the same name. Make the shell script executable: sudo chmod u+x /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox.sh Simlink the shell script into the /usr/bin dir, or somewhere on your path: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox.sh /usr/bin/firefox3.5 Run the script from the command line using: firefox3.5 Enjoy!
- mattyb 17y ago
  For those of you who want 'firefox' to run 3.5 with your current 3.0 profile, you can do the following: tar xjvf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 sudo mv ./firefox /usr/lib/firefox-3.5 cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox firefox-3.5 sudo rm -f firefox sudo ln -s firefox-3.5 firefox You can run 3.0 by using 'firefox-3.0', which should already exist.