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Firefox 2.0.0.1 for Ubuntu

Wednesday, 20. December 2006, 13:00:34

Ubuntu do not upgrade your firefox, at least until now still no update from my repository. Firfox released 2.0.0.1 which fix some security bugs, which I think is important. Luckly, you can download from firefox official website, and it works nice.

Pick your preferal language and download it from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

For simple steps after download, you can do it with gnome terminal

sudo tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.0.1.tar.gz -C /opt/

Try out the new firefox first, check the version.

/opt/firefox/firefox

If it is working fine with all your data, now backup the old symlink and create a new symlink to your new firefox

sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox{,-old}
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

If your firefox is not under /usr/bin, check it out where it come from

which firefox

Check whether is it symlink

ls -l `which firefox`

References:
Check out more command line examples at http://lne.blogdns.com/lbe
Symlink example - http://lne.blogdns.com/lbe/archives/19/how-to-create-symlink/
which example - http://lne.blogdns.com/lbe/archives/category/common/which/

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change firefox after upgrade to dapper from breezy

Monday, 5. June 2006, 12:06:38

dapper, linux, ubuntu, firefox

When I install firefox manually to breezy ubuntu is version 1.5.0.1. But after i upgraded to dapper, firefox tag with dapper is more latest. I realized that after upgrade to dapper, firefox still remains 1.5.0.1, actually the real case is new firefox is been install with different name. For my case it is

/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu

And I also realized that /usr/bin/firefox is just a symlink to /opt/firefox, which I manually install last time. To get the latest firefox, the steps are easy.

Maintain the old link to my manually installed firefox.

sudo mv /usr/bin/{firefox,firefox.old}

Create a symlink to link a new firefox

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/{mozilla-firefox.ubuntu,firefox}

Okay, double click the firefox and guess what, my bookmark is still remain to same, version changed., ap

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Play web media outside the internet browser

Monday, 26. December 2005, 05:25:37

firefox

Do you get frustrated while trying to make your firefox support streaming windows media, quicktime etc? You can play wmv mov independently after u download it, why it can't play it in browser? If you want the media play outside the internet browser, there is a way if you using mozilla or firefox.

Check this out , Media Player Connectivity

As long as it play, that is fine for me.

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