Tuesday, June 30. 2009
FAQ - Where can I get firefox 3.5 for Ubuntu?
It’s definitely hot news today: firefox 3.5 was released – you can finally stop holding your breath!
Also checkout the release notes or get an overview on what is new in this great release.
So after all the partying, you might end up wondering: “Great, Where can I get it for ubuntu now?”
As usual, the answer depends on what Ubuntu version you are running:
Karmic and Jaunty users:
- just install the currently available firefox-3.5 (and firefox-3.5-gnome-support) package(s) from universe and wait. The final bits will be there really soon.
- If you want to have them earlier, enable ubuntu-mozilla-security PPA where the bits will land first. Enabling this PPA also will help us test security updates before they get rolled to the masses in future; so if you don’t mind a slightly increased risk of breakage keep this enabled; in the unlikely event that you see a regression from this archive, instantly report them to the ubuntu mozillateam.
- If the security PPA is still not bleeding edge enough for you, go for the daily PPA, a great service that is run by ubuntu mozillateam for quite some time now.
Hardy or Intrepid users:
- stay tuned and wait for further announcements. We haven’t decided where to make the bits available yet.
- In any case, if you don’t mind running daily builds you can use the ubuntu-mozilla-daily PPA now.
Update: firefox-3.5 and xulrunnner-1.9.1 available in karmic and in jaunty-security / jaunty-updates (yay!).
I will wait a while.Firefox 3 has me using Links2 on many Sites I am not that eager to download it yet.I will just wait until the reviews come in
Hey, and what about:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ppa
I will like to see this PPA to become the main source of packages for Ubuntu of mozilla products for ANY supported version of Ubuntu!!!
what purpose would ~mozillateam ppa have? its not easy to keep a single PPA scoped. we have users that want dailies, we have users that want to help testing security builds. we have users that always want the latest release/milestones backported.
Thanks for this info as I was wondering where to get a build. I would use the official Mozilla build but it doesn’t use the system cairo so fonts would look different to other apps on the system. Will the package in universe have the official branding (instead of the release code name branding the Ubuntu Mozilla Daily PPA has)?
I tried installing the firefox-3.5 package on my kubuntu jaunty, but it wants to pull in a load of gnome packages. Is this a packaging issue, or does firefox-3.5 really depend hard on gnome-libs now?
FYI:
yves@viking:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5
[sudo] password for yves:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
Suggested packages: docbook docbook-dsssl docbook-xsl docbook-defguide firefox-3.5-gnome-support libbonobo2-bin libcanberra-gtk0 desktop-base libgnomevfs2-bin libgtk2-perl-doc python-gconf-dbg python-gtk2-doc python-gst0.10-dbg python-gnome2-extras-doc python-launchpad-integration-dbg python-pyorbit-dbg perlsgml doc-html-w3 opensp dwww menu
The following NEW packages will be installed apturl docbook-xml firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding gamin gconf2 gksu gnome-app-install gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data gnome-mount gvfs gvfs-backends libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcairo-perl libcanberra0 libcdio-cdda0 libcdio-paranoia0 libgail-common libgail18 libgamin0 libgcr0 libgksu2-0 libglib-perl libgnome2-0 libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-common libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgp11-0 libgtk2-perl libgtkhtml2-0 libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libgvfscommon0 liblaunchpad-integration1 libpam-gnome-keyring libpolkit-gnome0 libproxy0 librsvg2-common libscrollkeeper0 libsexy2 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libtdb1 libvte-common libvte9 policykit-gnome python-gconf python-glade2 python-gst0.10 python-gtkhtml2 python-launchpad-integration python-pyorbit python-sexy python-vte scrollkeeper sgml-data software-properties-gtk synaptic ubufox xulrunner-1.9.1
0 upgraded, 73 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 130MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
yves@viking:~$
the gnome depends are most likely pulled in through recommends. Try: sudo apt-get—no-install-recommends install firefox-3.5
asac thank you! What you suggested did the trick, just the three following packages were installed: firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding xulrunner-1.9.1
This isn’t an official build. It’s a pre-release package. "This is build is NOT A FINAL OR ‘BETA’ VERSION." It even says so in the About of the program.
Thanks, I really wanted to know this. Is it enough to enable the ubuntu-mozilla-security PPA to get 3.5, or do I have to do anything else?
If you haven’t installed firefox-3.5 package, do so first. The final bits will then come automatically to you.
Hey, asac. Thanks for the blog post. This is basically exactly the information everyone is looking for in one convenient place.
Out of curiosity, and I’m not complaining, obviously, why exactly IS 3.5 going to be in the repositories? It seems a little strange that we wouldn’t have to do this from the PPAs like we normally do if we want significant updates to a program.
Is it just that important?
the 3.5 package has been in jaunty universe from the beginning. So this is just an update and not a new package.
I guess I’m a bit dense. I have followed these instructions, as well as downloading the bz file, but it always shows me 3.0.11 in help – about. This is a new install of 9.04 on a Toshiba Satellite laptop. What did I miss?
you’ll see you have a soft link from firefox to firefox-3.0, and should see firefox-3.5 here too. If you don’t – do not continue, if you do, do the following:
Now your firefox should launch 3.5. On the first launch it will take a while as it will take the 3.0 settings and such and cary them to 3.5.
Sincerely,
Ryan
We didn’t replace your firefox-3.0 install yet. See the firefox 3.5 transition spec for details.
ATM, firefox 3.5 will show up in your Applications -> Internet menu as "Shiretoko".
Any information on when the firefox-3.5 package in jaunty will be updated to final version?
Please also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/393978
From: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/393978/comments/7
> If you install Fx 3.5 from Moz. Security repo, beware – it is still Shiretoko with that ugly icon and there is no localization.
This is not special in the security repo. The repo reflect exactly what will go into jaunty-updates. The more testers use the repo, the sooner this can go out. Thanks!
How can I replace the current browser (Firefox 3.0) and get Firefox 3.5 on jaunty? Without having two browsers in the menu, without having the ugly blue icon and without version confusion when opening links in external programs?
Thanks!
It you set your sources in Ubuntu to allow Proposed Updates then FF3.5 is available 
Was: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090401 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5b4pre – Build ID:20090401172919
Now: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090701 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5 – Build ID: 20090701021524
Remember to then turn proposed off
SilverWave…
Are you sure?
I’ve looked and it’s not there (you can even check http://www.mail-archive.com/jaunty-changes@lists.ubuntu.com/).
Are you sure you’re not seeing one of the test Shiretoko builds from one of the reops in the original post?
It seems having fta’s PPA supersedes the official version in Jaunty-proposed – which is why I couldn’t see it – only fta’s test build.
I can confirm: firefox 3.5 is in jaunty-proposed
we pocket-copied it from the ubuntu-mozilla-security PPA, so maybe that’s why there is no changes mail.
Hey, sorry to bother you – I know you must be busy – but there are still lots of people claiming that we’ll only see properly branded Firefox 3.5 with the release of Karmic. Can you say something decisively on this matter and if – as we all hope – FF3.5 will be linked to the official Ubuntu ‘firefox’ package, what will be the rough timeframe? Thanks.
Its true, we won’t auto-upgrade firefox 3.0 users in jaunty; doing such a major version upgrade in a stable release is (luckily) not our policy, and though it might be tempting, be assured its much smarter to not do that for firefox. We made it available in the repo for users that need it now; all others will get it when they upgrade to karmic.
Any decision reached, as to how Ubuntu 8.04 hardy users will receive firefox 3.5? I am talking about the stable 3.5 release, not daily packages
There is an unofficial repository for FF3.5 in Hardy or Intrepid: check https://launchpad.net/~fta/+archive/ppa
Please provide an update as to when a stable release of Firefox 3.5 will be available for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy users? Even a general time frame would be nice to know. Thanks!
What Gordon said. We (myself and all the friends I’ve converted to the LTS 8.04) would love to know when FF3.5 will be easily & trustably available. Much thanks.
Much more important is: How can one get SeaMonkey 2 for Ubuntu? I know, there are crude methods like Ubuntuzilla, but it should be easily installable from the Ubuntu repositorys with apt. At least, I desperately hope it will be when Lucid is released! (I know, it couldn’t be in Karmic since it was released after Karmic’s freeze, which made me skip Karmic, but in Lucid – especially as an LTS version – it is an absolute must-have!)
Thanks!
sg
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