I downloaded and extracted Firefox 52.9.0esr, but when I run the firefox run file, it just runs the latest version, not the one I downloaded. Can anyone help me out?
The native Firefox command on Linux is the one installed from your repositories. You have to run the one you extracted as the tarball, which is not the ideal way to install software on Linux. What distribution of linux are you using?
Just Ubuntu. It came with it by default.
Go to the location where you have this binary.
cd /home/Virtual_Law/Firefox52.9.0esr/
./firefox
Adapt to your situation…
I don’t understand
It’s the command you have to run.
if you’re in that directory, execute the firefox executable via ./firefox (which is the firefox inside this directory)
if you just type firefox, It grabs it from /usr/bin that almost certainly hold your stock ubuntu install firefox
As @Exard3k already mentioned…
Run a terminal, then go to the location on the disk where you have your version of firefox, then enter the command ./firefox which will run the binary file in this directory. Make sure the ff filename is correct, sometimes it may be ./firefox-esr
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YES!!!
SICK!!!
Thank you!
I had to disconnect from the network to keep it from updating, but I got it. Now I think I’m one step closer to running Java in the web browser.
I would mark your response or answer as solved, but I don’t see the option to.