Installing firefox on Linux

Just use following instructions to download and install Firefox.

Download firefox to your Linux desktop

=> Visit this site to download firefox

How do I install firefox for home directory?

Let us say you would like to install firefox in your own home directory called /home/tom/firefox
$ mkdir /home/tom/firefox

Change directory:
$ cd /home/tom/firefox

Copy your files to /home/tom/firefox and untar it:

$ cp /home/tom/Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.5.tar.gz .
$ tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.0.5.tar.gz

And you are done. Start firefox:
$ /home/tom/firefox/firefox &

How do I install firefox for everyone?

Install Firefox in /opt directory. Login as root user:
# cd /opt
# mkdir firefox
# cd firefox
# cp /home/tom/Desktop/firefox-2.0.0.5.tar.gz .
# tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.0.5.tar.gz To start firefox:
$ /opt/firefox/firefox &
can i create a shortcut on desktop ?

you can create Desktop short by right clicking on Desktop > Create New > File > Link to Application

Next Select Application Tab > Type Description and Comment as FireFox and Command as /opt/firefox/firefox

Click Ok to save and you are done. This is for KDE desktop.

You can acces at : http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-firefox-20targz-in-linux/

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