Firefox

[retriever]

I would like to update Firefox to the latest version. How do I do that? I think they are up to version 21.0 and all I can find is version 17.0.5. Any help would be appreciated. I am using Mageia 3 KDE.

Thank you.

[doktor5000]

Any particular problem that requires Firefox 21.0 (other then SNS?)

You may want to look at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/in ... efox-linux

[daniewicz]

That is a nice, informative read. Thank you.

[doktor5000]

So you successfully installed it?
Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks

[retriever]

No, I was neveer able to install it, but I guess I'll just use the older version.

[doktor5000]

Well, you just unpack it and then start it. What was your problem exactly?

Did you follow those steps?

• Download Firefox from the Firefox download page to your home directory.
  
• Open a Terminal and go to your home directory: cd ~
  
• Extract the contents of the downloaded file: tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2
  
• Close Firefox if it's open.
  
• To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder: ~/firefox/firefox

[azziam]

I tried this to the letter and can't get it to work. I get:

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[pete@localhost ~]$ ~
bash: /home/pete: Is a directory
[pete@localhost ~]$ ~/firefox/firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/pete/firefox/libxpcom.so:
libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.
[pete@localhost ~]$


[doktor5000]

I tried this to the letter and can't get it to work. I get:

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XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/pete/firefox/libxpcom.so:
libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

You may want to look at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3790