Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0 Beta 1. Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 web rendering platform, and includes new bookmarks and history organizer, new download manager, support full page zoom, tab bar and location bar improvements etc. For more information, read release notes.
To install Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, you can execute the following steps:
1. Download Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 from here. Save it to ~/Desktop folder.
2. Extract the tarball file to /opt folder:
cd ~/Desktop
sudo tar jxvf firefox-3.0b1.tar.bz2 -C /opt/
3. Change file owner and access permissions:
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/firefox/
sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/firefox/
Now you can launch Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 with the following command:
/opt/firefox/firefox
7 responses so far ↓
1 Protagonistics // Nov 23, 2007 at 6:38 am
This fix DOES NOT WORK. Followed steps fully to the end but only Firefox 2 loads.
2 ciccio pasticcio // Nov 23, 2007 at 10:21 am
Close first your running instance of firefox 2 and then launch firefox 3 beta 1.
3 johny // Dec 5, 2007 at 5:38 am
Do I have to run it under root always?
No other solution?
4 Stephen // Dec 15, 2007 at 3:12 pm
“Do I have to run it under root always?”
You’re not running it as root (or shouldn’t be!!) the chown root:root bit is just making sure only root can modify the files (a good thing)
5 Alex // Dec 20, 2007 at 2:22 am
How do I uninstall or upgrade to beta 2? Thank
6 Johnny // Feb 13, 2008 at 1:30 am
My ls looked like this
4 -rw-r—– 1 root plugdev 144 2008-02-05 17:10 updater.ini
js@k2:/media/hda9/56/www/browser/firefox$ cd ..
I tried your chown and did not make any changes.
js@k2:/media/hda9/56/www/browser$ sudo chown -R root:root firefox
chown: changing ownership of `firefox/libxul.so’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `firefox/chrome/pippki.jar’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `firefox/chrome/toolkit.manifest’: Operation not permitted
7 Andrea // Feb 22, 2008 at 3:22 am
it works fine…
thank you
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