I read somewhere that Firefox was renamed to Iceweasel on Debian. Thus, I can’t install the Google Toolbar for it. So here are the steps for installing Firefox manually in a linux system.

  1. Download the source from Mozilla’s site

  2. Unpack the source. tar -zxvf firefox-2.0.0.12.tar.gz

  3. Create a shell script pointing to the binary of the source.

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/rupert/firefox
./firefox &

  1. Grant execute rights to the script.

  2. Right click on the top-panel and click “Add To Panel”

  3. Choose “Custom Application Launcher” and specify the ff:

Name: "Firefox"
Command: /home/rupert/firefox.sh
Comment: Mozilla Firefox Browser.

  1. Click on the Left Button to specify an icon to the launcher.

  2. Click on Browse and navigate to /home/rupert/firefox/icons

  3. Let’s install Google Toolbar.

  4. Restart Firefox.

If you want to install the Adobe Flash Plugin, then download the player (install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz) from Adobe.

# tar -zxvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
# cd /home/rupert/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
# ./flashplayer-installer