It's not necessary to remove firefox-esr. If it was extracted in /opt/firefox/firefox, the start command needs one more " /firefox " i.e. "-p" means it start with a profile chooser window and "-no-remote" means that it will be possible to run different versions of Firefox at the same time. When this is ready, you can already start the new Firefox version from terminal via: /opt/firefox/firefox -p -no-remote (dot) like described here or create the directory /opt/firefox (mkdir /opt/firefox) and extract it there like in the how-to ( tar xjf firefox-57.0.2.tar.bz2 -C /opt/firefox/ ).Ĥ. It can be extracted to a directory beginning with a. If someone has a 64 bit system, it will download a file named firefox-57.0.2.tar.bz2ģ. If you want the latest version, currently click 57.0.2 and choose linux 64 bit or 32 bit depending on your system. Creating a symlink firefox-esr -> firefox, so when you start firefox-esr, actually it starts the new firefox version.Ģ. Renaming firefox-esr to firefox-esr_origĤ. Creating an /opt/firefox directory and extracting the downloaded file thereģ. Getting the latest Firefox version for 64 bit systemsĢ. ^That how-to does work, but it's good to understand what the user is actually doing.
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