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I've downloaded an update for Firefox which is now in my Downloads folder. How do I get it from there to open and replace my existing version 20? I've tried double-clicking the download, but nothing happens. If I right-click the download, I can 'Open Containing Folder', but this just takes me to a TMP folder, containing other files & folders.

I'm new to Ubuntu, but in Windows and OS X, I just double-clicked the download and it would install the necessary stuff in all the right places.

Frustrated and getting off to a bad start...

Brian
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First: You need to remove the existing Firefox package.

Open a terminal. CtrlAltT.

Run it:

sudo -i
apt-get remove firefox

Then, download the latest Linux build of Firefox directly from Mozilla:

32 bits:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/63.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-63.0.tar.bz2

64 bits:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/63.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-63.0.tar.bz2

Move the downloaded file to /opt, extract it and change the permissions of the files:

sudo -i
mv /home/brian/Downloads/firefox-63.0.tar.bz2 /opt
cd /opt
tar -jxvf firefox-63.0.tar.bz2
chmod 755 /opt/firefox

Create a symbolic link and delete firefox-63.0.tar.bz2 from /opt. Don't forget to exit the root shell

ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
rm firefox-63.0.tar.bz2
exit
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