Upgrade Firefox and Flash player in Ubuntu

My Ubuntu system with the Firefox browser version is 17.0.1, today to see the official online version of the latest has been to 23, so want to upgrade it.

Linux is not very familiar with, thanks to the search engine, and eventually upgrade it successfully, here to record the operation process. upgrade Firefox

The first is to download Firefox, I downloaded from here: http://firefox.com.cn/download/

Firefox does not offer installation packages (such as RPM or Deb packages) under Linux, only binary executable packages are available. Download executable package, after decompression can be used directly, but we usually do some configuration.

I download the Chinese version of Firefox, address: http://download.firefox.com.cn/releases/firefox/22.0/zh-CN/Firefox-latest.tar.bz2

Linux distributions are generally also with Firefox, because some need to uninstall first: C code sudo apt-get remove Firefox

Do not use the-purge option, this will remove the original Firefox configuration file.

Then unzip the downloaded firefox-latest.tar.bz2 to the/usr/lib directory: C code cd/usr/lib/sudo tar-xvf/home/zyh/software/firefox-latest.tar.bz2

This will install Firefox under/usr/lib, and then enter the./firefox command in the directory to start the browser. But in this case, every time you start Firefox will need to go to the directory, is very troublesome, we can build links to the/usr/bin directory: C code cd/usr/bin/sudo ln-s/usr/lib/firefox/firefox

So we can start Firefox under any path in the terminal.

Finally create a shortcut to Firefox C code cd/usr/share/applications VI firefox.desktop

Then edit the contents of the Firefox.desktop file in VI as follows (you can use any editor, such as Nano or gedit): C code [Desktop Entry] Name=firefox comment= Firefox browser genericname = Firefox browser-Chinese version exec=/usr/lib/firefox/firefox icon=/usr/lib/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png Terminal=false Type=Ap Plication categories=application; Network;

Save exit after the/usr/share/applications will appear Firefox shortcuts, double-click to start the Firefox browser. It can also be copied to the desktop or pinned to the Unity launcher.

Shortcut properties:

Install Flashplayer

Firefox start can not play Flash video, although installed Flashplayer;chrome browser can play normally, but Firefox is not normal playback, the reason is not clear, the following note how to install Flashplayer plug-in Firefox.

First Download plugin: http://get.adobe.com/cn/flashplayer/

My Ubuntu is 64-bit, so download the tar.gz package as follows:

Unzip it, get libflashplayer.so and Readme.txt two files, and a USR folder; Open the Readme.txt text file, which contains a section of installation instructions about how to install Flashplayer, as follows: C code   installing using the plugin tar.gz:       o unpack  the plugin tar.gz and copy the files to the appropriate  location.         o save the plugin tar.gz  locally and note the location the file was saved to.        o Launch terminal and change directories to  the location the file was saved to.       o  Unpack the tar.gz file.  once unpacked you will see the  following:           + libflashplayer.so            + /usr       o Identify the  Location of the browser plugins directory, based on your linux  distribution and Firefox version       o Copy  Libflashplayer.so to the appropriate browser plugins directory.  at  the prompt type:           + cp  libflashlayer.so <browserpluginslocation>       o copy the  flash player local settings configurations files to the /usr  directory.  At the prompt type:            + sudo cp -r usr/* /usr  

First copy the libflashplayer.so to the browser's plugins directory, the/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/directory for my browser, followed by the copy USR directory to the/usr directory, This will successfully install the Flashplayer plugin for the Firefox browser.

Command the following C code TAR-ZXVF install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz sudo cp libflashplayer.so/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/s Udo Cp-r usr/*/usr

Original: http://blog.csdn.net/zhyh1986/article/details/9674327