It’s Firefox 3.0 release day (well, if you factor in the lack of understanding of timezones, to be fair – New Zealanders should have been downloading it yesterday) – anyway, mini soapbox aside, there seems to be a lack of simple instructions as to how to update Firefox on Ubuntu 8.04 from the version 3 beta to the release version – so I thought I’d do the foot (finger?) work for you…
As always, do a backup, YMMV – this is a guide not a guarantee…
- First off you’ll need to grab the release version of Firefox from here
- Save the file to your Ubuntu box
- Shut down all instances of Firefox you may have running
- From a terminal window enter the following:
- Start Firefox again and check things worked by looking at ‘Help > About’
sudo tar -C /opt -jxvf firefox-3.0b2.tar.bz2