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

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?
 
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?
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This. Get on the latest version.
 
SMN said:
This. Get on the latest version.
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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