Greetings fellow Firefoxers, Firefoxians & Firefoxants... er..I mean firefox lovers.
Get ready to
Gonna install with an installer you already have in your Hard disk or USB Drive ?Very funny. A Big NO. I would end cleaning public toilets in one of the Arab countries for such a sick joke :)
What? Is there really a way to do this?
Yes. Just follow the simple steps and you will know.
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Get ready to
- Show off a new GEEKY way to download firefox and impress your friends.
- Prove that we don't need any other browser to download Firefox.
- Download Firefox without help of IE in a PC with fresh installation of XP/Vista !
Gonna install with an installer you already have in your Hard disk or USB Drive ?Very funny. A Big NO. I would end cleaning public toilets in one of the Arab countries for such a sick joke :)
What? Is there really a way to do this?
Yes. Just follow the simple steps and you will know.
- Open the command prompt (Start > Run > Type CMD > Press Enter)
- Type in ftp [Enter] - Yes this is it - File Transfer Protocol
- Type o [Enter]
- Type releases.mozilla.org [Enter] Then it will prompt you for the Username, type anonymous [Enter]
- Next it will ask for the password, type techtolarocks [Enter]
- Now it must say '230 Login successful.' Congrats !
- Next type lcd c:\ and it will respond - 'Local directory now C:\.'
- Type binary [Enter]
- Next type cd pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases [Enter]
- Then type ls [Enter] (LS in small letters) and it will list all the subfolders
- Choose which version you wanna download and type cd <foldername>For example, I need to download RC3 so I will type cd 3.0rc3 [Enter]
- Next cd win32 if you are using windows. Linux/Mac users use ls and cd again.
- Next type cd en-US [Enter] (choose English - US, For other language use ls)
- now type mget * - and it starts to download all the files in that folder.
- When it prompts ? for each file just type in y
- After downloading your favorite firefox installer, find it in c:\
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