Am unable to install newer version of Firefox. I simply end up with tar.bz file which will not open, & "Support" at Mozilla seems written for 'insiders''.
At certain websites I receive a mesage that I'm using an older version of Firefox (so far as I understand, it's 13.0, and was installed in 2012), which, I suppose, is unsupported, and may not or will not work in certain contexts. However many times I've tried to dowload and install a newer or newest version, it never works. A pop-up box always tells me to open or save the file, which is a "Bzip archive". The latest version of Firefox appears to be (when checked Oct. 2, 2015) 41.0.1.tar.bz2. When the pop-up box appears, I'm given the option of opening it with Archive Manager, as a default, or with other programs--no others seem to me to be preferable--or to save the file. All this is extremely frustrating.
When I used Archive Manager it opened and read the file, and saved it as a 93.8 MB folder. Right-clicking on the icon of the folder allowed me to open it or "extract" it. Opening it produces a list of what's in the folder, but does nothing to help me. Extracting also seems to me to achieve nothing. Whatever I do, I go in circles but cannot install the software.
Mozilla Support tells me that, to install Firefox, my computer must have the "required libraries" installed. How can I tell if it does have those, and what do I do if it doesn't?
So far as I can tell, my computer, an older desktop on which I use a version of Mint as an operating system, meets the requirements for the latest version of Firefox. But I don't know if I have the right "libraries or packages".
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Try this:
- Download the Firefox installer and save the file to the desktop
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
You can extract the content of the tar.bz2 archive to a folder in your Home directory or to a location like /usr/local/ that requires root permissions.
See:
Can Firefox update itself for you? That might be simpler if it can.
The usual method is:
Help > About Firefox
Thanks very much for two replies thus far. Unfortunately, neither solved this problem.
To the question "can Firefox update itself for you?", the answer is NO.
As for attempting to save the Firefox installer to my desktop and then extracting it to a folder in my home directory, this hasn't worked. I can't, it seems, save it to my desktop. The only choice I seem to have is to open the tar.bz2 file, a Bzip archive, with Archive Manager, and if I extract it I'm returned to the Archive box--or, perhaps more accurately, the FIrefox box in Archive.
jscher2000 said
The usual method is: Help > About Firefox
That is not possible with third-party builds such as the ones provided by a Linux distro. Only the official Linux builds from mozilla.org gets updates from Mozilla.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux
You just extract the tarball and then run the firefox script in Firefox folder to start Firefox. You can make launcher/shortcuts to the firefox script on panel, desktop menus etc.
Verify that you meet the System Requirements (GTK+ and GLib) for the current Firefox version i your Linux distribution.
There are lots of file managers on Linux that can open a tar.bz2 archive, either with the cursor Right key or possibly via the right-click context menu or otherwise via one of its menus. If this is a two pane FM then you can open a destination folder to install Firefox to or otherwise use the clipboard to copy and paste all files to an installation folder.