Upgrade your Firefox web browser.
Found this great tutorial site for upgrading Firefox web browser in Ubuntu (and Ubuntu-style) Linux distributions. I’ve linked to the category page, because (to date) the latest version mentioned is Firefox 3.5.5 and currently (as of 2nd February 2010) Mozilla has released version 3.6 for download. Click the following link to Mozilla Firefox downloads page.
Why is “Ubuntu and Ubuntu-style” relevant here? Because the tutorial that I found applies to the Linux distro that I’ve been using for a while. It’s called “Crunchbang Linux” and it’s also known by it’s symbolic alias of #! –more info on Crunchbang Linux at this link. The tutorial was written with Ubuntu in mind but will also work on Ubuntu derivatives such as Linux Mint and others.
The tutorial has 3 easy steps—possibly even 2 steps—depending on whether or not you’ve already upgraded Firefox or not. If you have upgraded, you’ll need to follow all 3 steps. If not, then you’ll only need 2 steps. Note, I do not count the step of moving the downloaded Firefox *.tar.bz2 file to your /home/userName directory as a step because it’s something you will have to do (or not do) depending on your Firefox download folder preferences. Early versions of Firefox have a default setting of downloading all files to the /home/userName/Desktop folder, however, depending on the flavor of Linux you are running, it may choose the /home/userName/downloads folder.
Thanks again to Jaxov for the awesome tutorial. Just follow this link (or the link at the top of this post) and then look for the highest Firefox version available. You should also visit the Mozilla download link above to see if a later version is available. The steps in the tutorial are similar (if not identical) for recent versions of Firefox, so even if you are downloading version 3.6 you can still follow the directions in the tutorial for 3.5.5 and it will work.