Hi Peter, It's been a while since I've run a development version / non packaged version of Firefox but I've quickly tested the following method which serviced me for a number of years.
Please note this does not 'install' Firefox. I'm basically doing the Windows equivalent of unzipping an archive and running the executable. 1. Download Firefox 4.0 beta: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/ 1.1. Close you existing Firefox browser window 2. Extract it. 3. Open the extracted 'firefox' directory. 4. Execute the 'firefox' shell script. i.e. Double click it (you might have to hit click 'run' in Gnome). Steps 2, 3 and 4 can be either performed from the GUI or command line. Once your happy its working, you can create shortcuts / application launches on your desktop so you don't have to navigate to the 'firefox' directory each time. Hope that's clear enough. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Peter Rundle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sluggers, > > does anyone on this list, who isn't running the latest version of Ubuntu and > doesn't re-build their Linux desktop every second day and therefore doesn't > have "add-apt-repository" and "ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa" or whatever the > hell is that on their box, > > had any success in finding links to instructions as to how to install > Firefox 4.0 beta for normal users? (People still using Jaunty for example). > > TIA's > > > Pete > > P.S yes I'm frustrated and exasperated with Linux and no I can no longer be > bothered to try to keep up with the insane rate at which the community > changes things. I'm sure there are a million arguments as to why the > accelerator pedal would be better if it was on the left but it's not, it's > on the right so just leave it there otherwise you will just leave a whole > bunch of users behind who will then go back to that other operating system. > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
