Firefox 17. 18. 19. 20, 21 or 22 any will do guys.

Edward78 · 10 Jul 2013 at 15:33

When will Synaptic get past 16, god some people are not compiling nuts??

JRS · 10 Jul 2013 at 16:11

If you're still on Mint 11 (guessing you are from your other recent thread), then it's probably not a major surprise that later versions of FF aren't in the repos. Is there a specific need to stick with an older Mint version?

SMN · 10 Jul 2013 at 17:01

JRS said:
If you're still on Mint 11 (guessing you are from your other recent thread), then it's probably not a major surprise that later versions of FF aren't in the repos. Is there a specific need to stick with an older Mint version?

This. Get on the latest version.

inSilica · 10 Jul 2013 at 17:21

SMN said:
This. Get on the latest version.

Or compile it yourself. I believe there are linux binary distributions for x86/AMD64 you can grab and stick in /opt. The maintainers are likely very busy or the newer FF version will require substantially newer components to compile / run.

JRS · 10 Jul 2013 at 20:36

I suspect you'll still need to upgrade the base OS, but you can try the following:

Go to mozilla.org, grab latest version for Linux.
Untar.
Delete /opt/firefox, move the firefox folder that you got from the tar file into /opt.

It may work, but it may also have dependencies that you can't sort due to running an older distro.

teppic · 11 Jul 2013 at 15:14

Does it need to be Firefox? Assuming it'll meet the dependencies you could download the latest Chrome.

Mint 11 was made end of life last year.

Cromulent · 25 Jul 2013 at 17:21

Or you could switch to Arch and never have this problem again

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eXor · 26 Jul 2013 at 10:36

JRS said:
I suspect you'll still need to upgrade the base OS, but you can try the following:

Go to mozilla.org, grab latest version for Linux.
Untar.
Delete /opt/firefox, move the firefox folder that you got from the tar file into /opt.

It may work, but it may also have dependencies that you can't sort due to running an older distro.

This is what I do on Debian. I made a custom script to automate the verify md5 / untar / delete / install process.

Haven't run into any dependency ( or other ) issues.