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Ubuntu will not make an official Firefox 3.5 package for Intrepid (8.10) since it is not considered a critical security fix, and support for Intrepid will be retired before Firefox 3.0 reaches end-of-life. Because Intrepid is near end-of-life, there's also been little interest in making a backport package.

You have a few options:

1. Upgrade to Jaunty (9.04). There is a package of Firefox 3.5 already in the repos.

2. Use the Mozilla team's PPA of Firefox 3.5 builds. These are development builds, and may not be completely stable. Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main Then 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5'

3. Compile the source yourself.

4. Use Firefox's precompiled binary tarball.

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