Need an updated version of firefox for Fedora 14.

[leonardevens]

I am still running Fedora 14 non my main machine while I work on mastering gnome 3 on another machine. But I need Firefox 10.0 or beyond. The version that Fedora 14 gives me isn't adequate for my needs.

I went to the Firefox website, and the only choice I seem to have is to download a tar file for version 11.0 for Linux. I did that, and extracted it to a directory on my desktop. But it doesn't look like anything i expect. There is no makefile nor any way to produce one that I see. Also, I can't find any instructions to tell me what to do.

Can someone give me some advice about how to obtain a more recent version of firefox than the one I have which I can construct with my Fedora 14 system? Or can someone tell me where to find a link to instructions?

[secipolla]

You got a firefox folder. Just launch firefox/firefox and that's it.
If you want to replace the one from the repo, first copy /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/, then uninstall the one from the repo and then link ...firefox/firefox (wherever you keep that folder. I leave these static apps in ~/Apps) to your $PATH (like ~/bin).

[JEO]

Remi Collet in France has a software repository that has Firefox 11 for Fedora 14. So search for that using Google and install that repo. When I want to update firefox I just put:

su -
yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox

[leonardevens]

Originally Posted by secipolla

You got a firefox folder. Just launch firefox/firefox and that's it.
If you want to replace the one from the repo, first copy /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/, then uninstall the one from the repo and then link ...firefox/firefox (wherever you keep that folder. I leave these static apps in ~/Apps) to your $PATH (like ~/bin).

When I do that, I get

$ firefox/firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/len/Desktop/firefox/firefox/libxpcom.so:
libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

---------- Post added at 03:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:11 PM ----------

Originally Posted by JEO

Remi Collet in France has a software repository that has Firefox 11 for Fedora 14. So search for that using Google and install that repo. When I want to update firefox I just put:

su -
yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox

I had some trouble adding the repositoory, but after I did, I managed to use yum to install the new version of firefox.

The reason I am doing this is that I use a set of programs at lumosity.com to keep my mind alert. (They really work!) But they have a new version which I couldn't get to work under the old firefox. With the new firefox, they get closer to working, but they still don't quite work.

Unfortunately, although the games are really worth it, the site could offer better support. I have repeatedly told them the new lumosity doesn't work for me, but so far I have not gotten any response from them.)

[bob]

moved to EOL