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ok yeah, so I untar it, and try to run it and it tell me :
error whiel loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
the thing is, apt tells me that that particular library is installed...
Downloaded it, guzipped it, untarred it, ran firefox-installer as root.
Installed to /usr/local/firefox
When I told it to try importing settings from 0.8 it seemed to hang, so I skipped that the second time.
But i'm using 0.9 right now, try it out, see how that goes.
You have several options to install firefox. There is currently a problem with mozilla using backports so you can either use apt-pinning or switch to testing/unstable from stable.
Switch from stable to testing or unstable[list=1][*]Run apt-setup and edit your sources list to point to testing or unstable instead of stable[*]Save and exit[*]At the command prompt, enter "apt-get install mozilla-firefox"[/list=1]
Another option is to use apt-pinning.
You can find a tutorial about it here
If you're going to use state-of-the-art software, like freshly shipped firefox, then I strongly recommend upgrading to sarge. If your problem is stability, a more or less coherent sarge snapshot is usually better than a sable with lots of upgraded libraries. Only reason to keep back is if you run an usupervised server in insecure environment, batch applying security patches.
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