As root, edit/create /usr/share/applications/sktop, ensuring that it reads Ĭategories=Application Network X-Red-Hat-Base desktop file for Firefox (though you may already have one). To avoid conflicts with SELinux, as root run chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /opt/firefox/libxul.so (If you didn't install the directory in /opt, or renamed the firefox directory, then you'll need to modify the above final argument to chcon accordingly.).Make sure that you have compat-libstdc++-33 (a Gnome C++ compatibility library): rpm -qa | grep compat-libstdc++-33 If not, then as root install it: yum install compat-libstdc++-33.

n.tar.bz2 -C /opt/ (Replace that n with the actual number from the archive that you downloaded.) As for me, as root, I put it in /opt: tar -xjvf firefox-3.6. If you want to ponder where, then study the FHS.

The tarball contains a directory, firefox, which should be dropped-in as a sub-directory of something.

Since a fair number of the hits to this 'blog are from searches as how to install Firefox 3.5 under RHEL 5.x or as to how to install Firefox 3.0 under RHEL 5.x, I'm going to infer that people are and will be surfing the Here are the steps that I recommend: If you're actually trying to install another version of Firefox, then click on the Firefox tag, as there may be an entry on that other version.

Download old version firefox 3.6