Kill all instances of Firefox by either closing your browser or running the pkill command.
# ps -elf | grep -i firefox
Make a new directory to download Firefox and the Flash client plugins in /tmp. Change directory to the newly created directory (e.g. /tmp/firefox).
# mkdir -p /tmp/firefox
# cd /tmp/firefox
Remove the following files:
# rm -rf /opt/firefox/*
# rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*
# rm -f /usr/share/icons/mozicon128.png
Download the following files:
Latest releases of Firefox & Flash as of 10/11/2012:
# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-16.0.tar.bz2
# wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.238/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
Extract the following files by running a TAR command:
Latest releases of Firefox & Flash as of 10/11/2012:
# tar -xvf firefox-16.0.tar.bz2
# tar -xvf install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
Copy over the newly untarred files to finish installation:
# cp -R firefox/* /opt/firefox
# cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
# mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins
# cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
To start a new instance of Firefox, perform the following:
# /opt/firefox/firefox &
Once Firefox successfully starts, point your browser to about:plugins and confirm that the plugin is enabled.
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