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For those of you too impatient to wait for the official package, you can build Mozilla Firefox 8.0.1 using the .SlackBuild from ftp://slackware.oregonstate.edu/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/source/mozilla-firefox/ Just grab these files: firefox.moz_plugin_path.diff.gz firefox.png mimeTypes.rdf.gz mozilla-firefox-mimeTypes-fix.diff.gz mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild mozilla-firefox.desktop slack-desc Then grab the source from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/8.0.1/source/ File:firefox-8.0.1.source.tar.bz2 File:firefox-8.0.1.source.tar.bz2.asc Make mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild executable: chmod a+x mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild Then run it ./mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild With any luck, [...]