Upgrading your firefox manually.
Here is a nice workout if you want to upgrade your firefox. This post is inspired by the fact that a lot linux distrubutions required online update for this upgrade. So here is workaround if you want to upgrade your firefox installation to a higher version or to the latest version. Step 1: Getting the installation package. The first and foremost thing is to get the installation package for your system. I have a Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) which came with default Firefox 3.0 version. So, you need to go to the Firefox hompage to get the desired installation package. Try to get the tar.bz2 or tar.gz package. This is a general package for most of the linux distributions. Step 2: Extract the tarball and move it to a particular location of desired choice Next, untar the archive using following command. $tar -xzvf firefoxtarball.tar.gz firefoxtarball.tar.gz or firefoxtarball.tar.bz2 as per your archive name. Now, move the extracted folder to some special place where you have all your install