Fedora X86/64bit :: Firefox 4 With Flash Support - 64 Bit

Here's how to install latest Firefox on a 64 bit system (leaving your old firefox install untouched):

1. Get the latest Firefox tarball (64 bit) from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ and save it to whereever you like.

2. Make a new directory in /usr/lib64 and untar it there

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3. We want to create a new user profile for Firefox 4. So start Firefox 4 profilemanager and create one.

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Name the new profile whatever you like, I created a new profile named FF4b for example. Also before quitting make sure you click on the "default" profile so that you don't mess up your existing Firefox install.

4. You can now start Firefox 4 with the new profile:

5. If not already installed download flash player square plugin (64 bit) from [url]

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Now you need to go to your .mozilla folder in your home directory and create a symlink for the flash plugin.

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Now look for a folder which is associated with the firefox profile you created earlier. The folder name should end with the name you created it with. Mine was cay67zed.FF4b for example. Cd to that directory:

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Make a plugins directory and put the symlink there:

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If you want, you can create a launcher for Firefox 4 on your desktop or taskbar with the following command option:

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