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He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. You won’t lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.

$ ~/firefox8/firefox A Note About Your Bookmarks and Browsing history (Am I Going To Lose Them?) To start Firefox, type the firefox command script in the firefox directory: Make sure you backup ~/.mozilla/ directory, enter: $ tar jxvf firefox-*.tar.bz2 -C ~/firefox8 Step #3: Start Firefox 8 Please note that if you can not install Firefox 8 in /opt directory, due to permission issue, use your own home directory as follows: To extract the contents of the downloaded file called firefox-8.0.tar.bz2 and install into /opt directory, enter:

If you’ve not saved or downloaded Firefox 8, use the wget command as follows: Open a command line-terminal and go to your /tmp directory, enter:
