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upgrade to Firefox 3 does not work

Asked by jbb

I used Synaptics package manager to download Firefox 3.0 package manager showed ok status afterwards
can find Firefox folder ( 2 of ie firefox 2 firefox 3 ) in /etc how do I get upgrade to work?
I run feisty 7.10 at moment.
Thanks John

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Knut Karevoll (gnonthgol) said : 		#1

If you restart firefox after an upgrade you should run 3.0
If you are still running 2.0 try the command 'sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 /usr/bin/firefox' in a terminal and restart firefox.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

Hello

Now you need to link the plugins using the following command

cd /opt/firefox/plugins/

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/* .

Now you need to create a link to your new firefox launcher using the following command

sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox

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

sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

and finally link the program if required

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 /usr/bin/firefox

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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