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Firefox 3.5 (Final) on Fedora 11

Firefox 3.5, the final release, has made its debut and is ready for download from here. Typically (and unfortunately) it may take about a day or two for Firefox 3.5 final to appear in the Fedora 11 repositories and across all the mirrors. When it appears, upgrading from the current version (Beta 4) of FireFox to the final release would be a matter of issuing ‘yum install firefox’. But we may not have to wait!

In the meanwhile, issue the following commands in your Fedora 11 (32 bit) box to upgrade to the final release of Firefox. Note that we are installing the required packages from the Koji repository:

  1. rpm -Uvh http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/nspr/4.8/1.fc11/i586/nspr-4.8-1.fc11.i586.rpm
  2. rpm -Uvh http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xulrunner/1.9.1/2.fc11/i586/xulrunner-1.9.1-2.fc11.i586.rpm
  3. rpm -Uvh http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/firefox/3.5/1.fc11/i586/firefox-3.5-1.fc11.i586.rpm

The above RPMs will need to be installed in the same order. If you are using 64 bit Fedora or are on other architecture (like ppc), download and install the packages named nspr, xulrunner and firefox from the following web pages:

Eventually these packages will be pushed and available through the official Fedora mirrors., but till that time, enjoy!

Update (July 5, 2009): Firefox 3.5 Final has been available from the Fedora 11 repositories, as I mentioned a few days back. A simple ‘yum update firefox’ will do the update to the final version on Fedora 11. This makes the above content outdated.

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3 comments for “Firefox 3.5 (Final) on Fedora 11”

  1. Thank you very much!

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    Posted by Li Shaohui | July 11, 2009, 1:13 pm
  2. WIll the above apply for redhat v9
    PS.
    Im new to the linux world any help will be greatly appreciated :-)

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    Posted by dexta | December 20, 2009, 7:21 pm
  3. Really sorry for the delay in response. Had been busy since all clients want to close the pendings before the holidays ;-)

    WIll the above apply for redhat v9

    No. Because the source is Fedora 11 respoitories.

    You can try (not tested by me on RedHat 9) to download the Firefox binary bundle from http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.5.6&os=linux&lang=en-US

    Extract the archive as:

    tar -jxvf firefox-3.5.6.tar.bz2

    Change into the resulting firefox directory and launch firefox:

    cd firefox
    ./firefox

    Please feel free to come back with any queries because what I have typed above are the tentative steps and commands

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    Posted by Shekhar | December 23, 2009, 12:52 am

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