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Using TAR Package for latest Firefox Release / Pre-Release

For my normal web surfing I prefer to use pre-released firefox. I am not a developer, thus this is my way to contribute to firefox. While using I hardly face any problem but if there any crash I do send crash report.
Apart from this I always like pre-released firefox. This is when you can makeout performance / feature improvement.

If you wait for your favorite distro to release rpm / deb package, you might not get chance to use latest pre-release.
For mozilla products I prefer tar packages only, as in there is no installation required. All you have to do is to extract & run application.

Download firefox-3.7 latest built
Create Folder in your Home Directory e.g packages & Extract source package
Or
As a root, extract package in /usr/local/etc/ so that same will be accessible to other users on same computer. (recommended)

Add shortcut on panel (./firefox/firefox)
panel_shortcut

Start using it.
firefox37

You might need to install compat-libstdc++ / libstdc++ rpm. otherwise you’ll not be able to run application

This is not only limited to pre-released packages. You can also use it for stable release, thus you can start using latest release as made available by mozilla rather waiting for new rpm / deb

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  1. December 15th, 2009 at 09:52 | #1

    A really useful tip as many people don’t know this is great contribution to Open Source software development

  1. December 16th, 2009 at 00:21 | #1