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How to update your Firefox to 3.6.4 on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

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http://linuxers.org – Firefox recently released a major update of the browser, Firefox 3.6.4. Major is not in the sense of version numbers, its the integration of Out of Process Plugins which isolates Third Party plugins and prevents Firefox crashes and freezes because of them. In this howto, I will tell you how to update your Firefox to the latest release on Lucid. Firefox 3.6.4 is available in the (General)

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