Firefox 5 on centos 32 bit

You will want to get the latest version of Firefox 4 from the Mozilla website (Note, this is the latest 4.0 install for en-US. For other languages or versions you can navigate the site from the link below. The current tarball name is firefox-4.0.tar.bz2):

(http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/release)

You will also want to download an appropriate version of libstdc++.so.6, in this case the version from Fedora 9 i386 will work:

libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm

Once you have both packages, you will extract them into a directory like this:

mkdir firefox4
mv firefox-4.0.tar.bz2 libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm firefox4
cd firefox4
tar xvjf firefox-4.0.tar.bz2

The above will leave you with a firefox directory at this level. Now we need to extract the libstdc++ rpm and copy the libstdc++.so file to that firefox directory:

mkdir libstdc
cd libstdc
rpm2cpio ../libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm | cpio -idv
cp usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.10 ../firefox/libstdc++.so.6
cd ..

Now you should be back into your firefox4 directory and you should have copied the library into the firefox directory. This command should show you that you have it in the correct place:

ls firefox/libstdc++.so.6

The result should be:

firefox/libstdc++.so.6

You are now ready to deploy the firefox directory where ever you want to run it from. I normally put it in /usr/lib/firefox-4. First I get root like this:

su

Then I change the owner to root and copy the files this this:

chown -R root.root firefox
cp -a firefox /usr/lib/firefox-4

Now you can exit the root shell and run firefox with the command:

/usr/lib/firefox-4/firefox

then copy softlink

ln -s /usr/lib/firefox5/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox