Install Firefox 35 On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / LinuxMint / RHEL / CentOS / OpenSUSE

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install the Firefox 35 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS /12.04 LTS, LinuxMint  / Fedora 20 / 19 / CentOS 6....

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install the Firefox 35 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS /12.04 LTS, LinuxMint  / Fedora 20 / 19 / CentOS 6.X / 7.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 35 recently.

Installation Steps

Method 1 (For Debian based systems) Via PPA 

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Method  2 (Manual way to install from tar file)

Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 35 from their FTP using wget

For 32 bit systems

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/35.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-35.0.tar.bz2

For 64 bit systems

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/35.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-35.0.tar.bz2

Step 2: Extract the tar package

tar -xjf firefox-35.0.tar.bz2

Step 3: Move the Firefox 35 folder to opt & remove the Older version of firefox if it's there

sudo rm -rf  /opt/firefox

sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox35

Step 4: Create Symbolic link for New Firefox 35 as default

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox35/firefox /usr/bin/firefox