Install Firefox 30.0 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS / OpenSUSE

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install the Firefox 30.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 13.10 /12.04 LTS, LinuxMint 15 / Fedora 20 / 19 / CentOS 6.X / OpenMandriva & OpenSUSE

Firefox a most commonly used browsers by everyone and one of the standard browsers too.It is an opensource browser and it is developed by mozilla corporation and mozilla Foundation and  available for Multiple Operating systems (ie) Windows,Linux,Mac OSX. 

Firefox Released its new stable Version 30 on 10th June 2014

New Features in Firefox 30.0

• Support for GStreamer 1.0
• Mac OS X command-E sets find term to selected text
• Sidebar button gives easier access to social, bookmark, & history sidebars
• Fixes to box-shadow and other visual overflow
• Error stack now contains column number
• Support for alpha option in canvas context options
• Ignore autocomplete="off" when offering to save passwords via the password manager
• TypedArrays don't support new named properties

Installation Steps

Method 1 (For Debian based systems)

Best and easy way is to upgrade firefox by updating the Repository.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Method  2

Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 29 from their FTP

For Downloading from Mozilla FTP Click HERE

(Or) 

Use wget 

For 32 bit systems

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/30.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-30.0.tar.bz2

For 64 bit systems

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/30.0/linux-x86_64/en-US//firefox-30.0.tar.bz2

Step 2: Extract the tar package

tar -xjf firefox-30.0.tar.bz2

Step 3: Move the Firefox30 folder to opt
Remove the Older version of firefox if it's there

sudo rm -rf  /opt/firefox

sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox30

Step 4: Create Symbolic link for New Firefox as default

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox30/firefox /usr/bin/firefox