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I just downloaded the latest version of Mozilla Firefox For Developers and Thunderbird Mail, from the mozilla's official site...
Both are .tar.bz2 files, I just clicked on it, but they are not executing.
Tried a lot of the other resources, tried the methods mentioned in the best questions on askubuntu.com too, but couldn't installed it.
How can you I install them, if anyone can tell me the correct way please.
Thanks in advance.

muru
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arximughal
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    its not a duplicate of "what you mentioned" :/ I tried the method mentioned in the question before,but its not working fine, and there isn't any **INSTALL** file or **./config** directory or **readme** file... @astrob0t – arximughal Nov 10 '14 at 17:42
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    @Jack then you have downloaded the binary packages. Extract them, then run the `firefox` file in the extracted folder. – muru Nov 10 '14 at 17:51

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Test this:

Open a terminal,

Press Ctrl+Alt+T

Run it:

sudo -i
mv /home/user/downloads/firefox-*.tar.bz2 /opt
mv /home/user/downloads/thunderbird-*.tar.bz2 /opt
cd /opt
tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2
tar xjf thunderbird-*.tar.bz2
chmod -Rf 777 /opt

To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder: /opt/firefox/firefox

To start Thunderbird, run the thunderbird script in the thunderbird folder: /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird

To replace the original versión to developers versión:

Open a terminal,

Press Ctrl+Alt+T

Run it:

sudo -i
cd /usr/bin
mv firefox firefox_old
mv thunderbird thunderbird_old
ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
ln -s /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird
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