I really wanted to upgrade my Firefox in FC4. When I tried using yum it updated Firefox 1.0.4 to 1.0.7. I tried adding extra mirrors in yum configuration but no use.
Latter I found a manual method to update Firefox.
su or login as root first.
# wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ .. /firefox-1.5.tar.gz
# cd /usr/lib
# tar xzvf ~/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
# mv firefox firefox-1.5
# which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
# cd /usr/bin/
# mv firefox old.firefox
# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/firefox
Thanks to Philip for sharing this. I followed the same instruction to update Firefox 1.5.1 and it worked.
su or login as root first.
# wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/.. /firefox-1.5.0.1.tar.gz
# cd /usr/lib
# tar xzvf ~/firefox-1.5.0.1.tar.gz
# mv firefox firefox-1.5.0.1
# which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
# cd /usr/bin/
# mv firefox old.firefox
# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.1/firefox
Cool… 
RSS
March 4th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I could not find libstdc++.so.5 with yum. Maybe thats why firefox wont start? I had to go back to firefox 1.0.7.
March 5th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Try updating your gcc compiler and its all library and try updating Firefox.
March 19th, 2006 at 4:37 am
Toymaker, try
# yum update libstdc++.i386
This will get the latest version (including the gcc compiler and other dependencies.)
However, it did not resolve my problem. Still getting
“error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
March 20th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
libstdc++.5 is an old version that exists in redhat enterprise linux. you must get a copy (google for the file), place it under a directory (i put my under /emu/redhat/lib), and then add it to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running the software that requires it.
April 5th, 2006 at 5:35 am
I did:
yum install /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
on my FC4 box and everything’s working now.
November 5th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Thanx to the poster–
{ed says:
April 5th, 2006 at 5:35 am I did:
yum install /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
on my FC4 box and everything’s working now.}
I’ve been trying many thing but nothing worked, at last this worked for my installation too (FC 4). Thanxxxxx….
November 17th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Please add firefox cookies/bad web sites immunization in next version!
Firefox 2 cannot reject third party cookies!!!!!!!!