It’s pretty easy to try out the latest Firefox beta for Ubuntu users. I’m sure it’s just as easy to try it out on other Linux distributions that are up to date.
Simply choose your language from the Firefox beta download page to begin your download. Once completed open up a terminal and run the following commands.
# create a temporary directory if you do not already have one. mkdir -p ~/tmp cd ~/tmp # un package the tar ball. tar -jxvpf /path/to/firefox-3.0b4.tar.bz2
Once the tar process completes
cd firefox # Launch Firefox ./firefox
Or close your terminal session and launch via the ALT-F2 Run Application method.
~/tmp/firefox/firefox
This new instance of Firefox does not use any plugins which may be already installed on your system. You will need to download any plugins you use such as the Adobe Flash player to
~/tmp/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
