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Ubuntu Linux Install Firefox 3 Web browser

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: June 19, 2008]

Q. How do I install Firefox 3 web browser under Ubuntu Linux?

A. Firefox 3 can be installed easily using apt-get

command under Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).

Command to install Firefox 3 Final version Web browser

Open the terminal and type the following two commands to install firefox 3.0 final version:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0

Sample output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  xulrunner-1.9
Suggested packages:
  firefox-3.0-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox-3.0 xulrunner-1.9
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 55 not upgraded.
Need to get 9845kB of archives.
After unpacking 27.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y 

How do I start Firefox 3?

Once installed click on Applications > Internet > Firefox Web Browser

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Discussion on This FAQ

  1. Nevyn Says:

    this is great but won’t this leave version 2.x still on my machine.

    should I uninstall 2.x first or second?

    Reason I ask is i want as many of my add-ons to migrate over as possible.

    Thanks for the information though - it just shows how easy ubuntu is.

  2. ff2 Says:

    followed these instructions and still stuck with ff2, do i need to change the launcher icons somehow? how do i know if it actually installed?

  3. vivek Says:

    What do you see when you go to Help > About?

  4. ff2 Says:

    The the launcher icons definitely fire up ff2. I found granparadiso installed in Synaptic Package Manager and removed it - I didn’t realise this was an alpha version of ff3 until I had done some reading up.

    Now if I enter the terminal commands you’ve provided, granparadiso reappears. I assume I have to update or get rid of the packages somehow?

  5. david Says:

    # apt-get install firefox-3.0
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree… Done
    E: Couldn’t find package firefox-3.0

    how to fix my problem? thanks

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