Installing a particular version of firefox on Linux.

install-firefox-linux.md

Installing a particular version of FireFox on Linux

1. Does an existing version of firefox exist?

   firefox --version
   

   If not, skip to (3).

2. Install dependency

   sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0
   

3. Download firefox version: FireFox's release archive can be found at https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/. You will need to use the appropriate version (typically linux-x86_64, but you can run arch or uname -m to check if your machine is 64 or 32 bit).

   wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0.2/linux-x86_64/en-GB/firefox-45.0.2.tar.bz2
   # Saving to: ‘firefox-45.0.2.tar.bz2’
   

4. Extract the binary

   tar xvf firefox-45.0.2.tar.bz2
   

5. Backup existing firefox directory

   If you have a firefox already installed, back-up the existing version:

   sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-backup
   

   and remove the symbolic link

   rm /usr/bin/firefox
   

6. Move the extracted firefox directory

   sudo mv firefox/ /usr/lib/firefox
   

7. Create a symbolic link to the firefox binary

   sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox /usr/bin/firefox