Comments on: How to Download & Install Firefox 3.5 On Ubuntu Linux

By: mo48

mo48 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:16:45 +0000

thankyou!

By: yudie

yudie — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:12:23 +0000

YUPIEE THIS IS THE SOLUTION MY PROBLEM AFTER INSTALL MOZZILA 3.5 In case you start Firefox using the old icon on the panel, you should change the properties of the icon(right-click -> Properties->Command) to “firefox-3.5 %u”(without quotation marks). Thus the icon will point to the right executable.

By: anthony

anthony — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:21:20 +0000

Hi, I use Ubuntu 9.04 and I have tried to update Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 for hours.
Then I have found page:
http://maketecheasier.com/easily-upgrade-your-firefox-to-35-in-ubuntu/2009/08/12

I think, it is “GOOD WAY” :-)) I can recommend it, Firefox 3.5.3 runing perfectly in a few moments :-))
If you are in troubles, try it !!

By: A Commenter

A Commenter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:37:23 +0000

I’m on ubuntu 9.04. I had the same issue upgrading to 3.5.2 – running firefox still showed version 3.0.13.

If you use the ‘ln’ command (in previous post) then you may have to update more symbolic links for completeness:

# Display all files that match the pattern ‘fire’ (ignoring case sensitivity)
sudo ls -l /usr/bin | grep -i fire

You’ll find there’s another link for ‘abrowser’ pointing to firefox-3.0:

After these commands I was up and running on firefox 3.5.2:
sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox
sudo rm /usr/bin/abrowser
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/abrowser

By: Talal Arshad

Talal Arshad — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:40:25 +0000

A better and easy way..Shiretoko has problems try this method this will install the original firefox 3.5
http://yomahol.blogspot.com/2009/08/best-way-for-installing-firefox-35-in.html

By: ejwaxx

ejwaxx — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:02:09 +0000

“Shiretoko” is the code name for the testing version of Firefox 3.5. Current release of Firefox is 3.5.2, Shiretoko is the pre-release version of 3.5.3.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:36:53 +0000

Can I use this on use these methods on Xubuntu 9.04

By: Bones

Bones — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:51:31 +0000

When I run firefox-3.5 from the terminal, it opens “Shiretoko.” What is that?

By: MoGlee

MoGlee — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:32:58 +0000

Thanks for this post, I finally got FF 3.5 running on Ubuntu!

BTW, Firefox 3.5 is the FASTEST browser??? Since when?

http://lifehacker.com/5286869/lifehacker-speed-tests-safari-4-chrome-2-and-more and http://www.favbrowser.com/safari-4-vs-chrome-2-vs-opera-10-vs-firefox-35-vs-opera-964-vs-firefox-3-vs-ie8-7/ – Chrome and Safari 4 are clearly much faster

Well I suppose since there is no Chrome/Safari for Linux as yet, you could say that, but still!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:02:35 +0000

Eichhorn,
In case you start Firefox using the old icon on the panel, you should change the properties of the icon(right-click -> Properties->Command) to “firefox-3.5 %u”(without quotation marks). Thus the icon will point to the right executable.

By: Eichhorn

Eichhorn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:14:15 +0000

Hi, thanks, but i have a problem, i installed firefox 3.5 through terminal and installed, but it’s still shaws 3.0.11 version in firefox’s help!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:27:01 +0000

Simone,
Sure you can try the method suggested by Kwame, but I would recommend that you first try this one:
change the Properties of the Firefox icon on the panel ->Command section to “firefox-3.5 %u” (without the quotation marks). Thus you will just change the command, without changing the links, so that you be able to go back to previous settings easily ;)