You should see entries for firefox and firefox-esr. Close firefox and open dmenu (Alt+F3) and type "fire" without quotes. Make sure the shortcut is named "firefox", NOT "firefox-esr". In the root folder, copy the new shortcut in your Home folder to /usr/local/bin. In the user folder, navigate to /opt/firefox/firefox, right-click the file and choose "Send To>Desktop (Create Link)" Just alter the paths in the following instructions to point to the new location. If you prefer, save it somewhere in your Home folder, maybe in a hidden folder, and then you don't need to worry about permissions. In the root folder, copy move (copy will not create the necessary permissions) ~/Downloads/firefox to /opt/firefox You now have 2 file manager windows open, one as user (pretty!) and one as root (intentionally ugly!) Be careful now. From its main-menu, choose "File>Open as root" and enter your password. The method I'll describe uses Thunar to make it n00b friendly. To replace Debian firefox with your new version. To check what version you're running and/or manually update to the newest release, Press "Alt" to bring up the Firefox main-menu and navigate to "Help>About Firefox" Open it and, after closing any running firefox windows, double-click the file "firefox". You now have the folder ~/Downloads/firefox. Open your file manager, right click the file and choose "Extract Here" ![]() ![]() Visit and download the version and language of Firefox you'd like to use.Įxtract the *.tar.bz2 tarbell (example using the Polish 64-bit ESR link). Replace Debian's firefox-esr with a version from, step by step.
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