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...
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
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 upgradeMethod 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.bz2For 64 bit systems
wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/30.0/linux-x86_64/en-US//firefox-30.0.tar.bz2Step 2: Extract the tar package
tar -xjf firefox-30.0.tar.bz2Step 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/firefox30Step 4: Create Symbolic link for New Firefox as default
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox30/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
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