How to run different versions of firefox on Ubuntu

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Some time it requires to run various versions of browsers. Developer/ QA teams need to run application over different versions of browser to pass UAT ( User Acceptance Test).
I faced this problem when i was trying to install Selenium IDE Add-on on Firefox 4.0, Firefox 4.0 does not have support to Selenium IDE 1.0.10 (Selenium IDE is open source web-based functional testing tool) 

Here are the steps to run different Firefox versions
Step - 1 
Create directory for storing your different versions of Firefox 
Your default version of Firefox will be found in
hostname@user $ cd /usr/bin 
e.g
hostname@user $ mkdir /home/user/opt/firefoxes

Step - 2
Download different versions of Firefox from official website click here 
or 
Open your favorite terminal follow the steps 
hostname@user $ cd /home/user/opt/Firefoxes
hostname@user home/user/opt/Firefoxes $ wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.tar.bz2


here this example will download firefox-3.6, change this according ton your needs

Step - 3

Extract downloaded build

hostname@user home/user/opt/Firefoxes $ tar xzvf firefox-3.6.tar.bz2

After extraction you will find the directory called firefox 

Step - 4

Change directory name ( This is for our convenience )

hostname@user home/user/opt/firefoxes $ mv firefox firefox-3.6
Step - 5

Run required version of Firefox

hostname@user home/user/opt/firefoxes $ ./firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager "firefox-3.6"

Once you hit this command system will prompt following screen

Choose your version & click on start button



Start enjoying your favorite version ...........  :)

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