How to install Mozilla Firefox Web Browser in Ubuntu Linux

In this post I am describing how to install Mozilla Firefox browser in Ubuntu Linux

Step 1 :  Download Latest Firefox browser for linux from the Mozilla portal
                          Mozilla Firefox for Linux Download

Step 2 : Save the  " firefox-25.0.tar.bz2 " tar file in a specified      downloads          folder or Home folder    

Step 3 : Untar the file "firefox-25.0.tar.bz2"   using command 

                              #tar -xvf firefox-25.0.tar.bz2

Step 4  : Removing previous versions of firefox. By  search command 

                             #whereis firefox

               generally firefox resides in  /usr/bin/firefox

               remove this file or backup the firefox file by using command

                                 #cp /usr/bin/firefox  /usr/bin/firefox.bkp

Step 5 : After this make a soft link form the folder where we untared the    downloaded firefox using the following command as a shortcut in windows

                                  #ln -s /home/firefox-25.0/firefox  /usr/bin/firefox

Step6 : finally firefox can be accessed from firefox icon on "Applications /internet/firefoxweb browser "