How to Install Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu

Recently Firefox released another major version of their famous browser with loads of new improvements and new features. But, unfortunately, still its not ready for Ubuntu! But, does that mean that we can’t taste the latest version of our favorite browser? Why not? Lets see how to break this law of Ubuntu!

In Windows systems, Firefox can be easily updated by clicking on the “Check for updates” link on the help menu. But on Ubuntu, this is disabled. You can only update using the Ubuntu’s package manager. But, this doesn’t mean that it is the only way to upgrade Firefox! Today we are going to use a small script called Ubuntuzilla to do the job.

How to install the latest Firefox on Ubuntu :

• First, Open your terminal (in the main menu, Applications > Accessories > Terminal), and enter the following command to add the ubuntuzilla repository to your sources.list

If your using Ubuntu 9.04 or later :

echo -e “ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

If your using Ubuntu 8.10 or earlier :

echo -e “ndeb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

• Next, you need to add the keys. In your terminal enter the following command to add the Ubuntuzilla package signing key to your keyring.

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

• Now, update your package database and install Firefox by issuing the following two commands, one after the other.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build