I have downloaded the Tar Ball (.bz2) of the Latest Mozilla Firefox version from Mozilla website to install on CentOS. How to install firefox-9.0.1.tar.bz2. What will happen to Bookmarks and other add-on installed.
First Download the Firefox from Mozilla.
Download Firefox:
If would like to download the Firefox on command line, use the wget command. Download and keep it on your home directory. Here i logged in as root, standing on home directory.
PS: No need to be as root to install & run the Firefox.
# wget 'http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-9.0.1&os=linux&lang=en-US' -O
firefox-9.0.1.tar.bz2
Extract the Tar ball:
Use the following command.
# tar -jxvf firefox-9.0.1.tar.bz2
Once Extracted you will find the Firefox folder on current directory. in my case /root/Desktop/firefox.
Run Firefox:
Before running the Firefox remove your older version of Mozilla Firefox. Run Firefox using full path of the executable script file.
# /root/Desktop/firefox/firefox
No need to worry about the bookmarks, you will not loose any book mark. You have to concern about the compatibility of add-ons that are installed on old version of Firefox. If you don’t know anything about the add-ons don’t worry when you run Mozilla Firefox for first time after the installation of new version it will ask you to update the add-on or it will automatically update the add-ons if update available.
