1. Download the latest Firefox release.
2. Install using the following code:
mv firefox* /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/
tar -xvf firefox*
rm /usr/local/*.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/
tar -xvf firefox*
rm /usr/local/*.tar.gz
3. You will want to place a symbolic link to the Firefox executable in /usr/local/bin/ with a command similar to this:
ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox
Flash
1. Download Flash Player 10.
2. Decompress it, then copy libflashplayer.so to your Firefox plugins directory and flashplayer.xpt to your Firefox components directory.