Manual Update on OEL

NOTE: YUM is the recommended mechanism for installing packages

If for some reason you cannot use yum then...

Using the current version of Firefox on OEL... 

Download latest Firefox from Mozilla web page... 

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/desktop/

Then, as root, in the directory you downloaded to...

tar -xjvf firefox-17.0.tar.bz2

cp -r firefox /opt/

ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox