Is running Latest Firefox on older versions of Ubuntu possible?

Is running Latest Firefox (ver. 16) on Ubuntu 8.04 possible?

If so, what do I need to do to accomplish this?

(If I can keep that latest support Firefox 3.6.17 alongside the latest Firefox 16, that's even better)

Solution 1:

Yes, you can. But you need to uninstall the installed one first. Use sudo apt-get remove firefox to do it

1. Download the latest version of Firefox from here.

2. Extract it in a directory, preferably in a folder in your home directory.

3. You can run firefox by going to the extracted folder and double clicking on the "firefox" program.

   But you may want to have an icon like regular installation. Create an icon with the help of these questions:

   • How do I install the latest stable version of Firefox?
   • How can I create launchers on my desktop?
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4. Now use the new Firefox.

Solution 2:

It can be , but is not for sure .

Download the tar.bz2 compressed file from Firefox page : http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ and Save file

Uncompress the file with (I assume you save the file in Downloads/ folder)

cd Downloads

tar -xvjf firefox-16.0.1.tar.bz2

Then move the folder with new firefox to /opt

sudo mv Downloads/firefox /opt/ 

connect to /opt and run the executable file

cd /opt/firefox/
./firefox