In this Tutorial I will show you how to install Firefox 44.0 on Ubuntu 15.10 / 14.04 LTS /12.04 LTS, LinuxMint 17 / 16 / 15 , Fedora...
In this Tutorial I will show you how to install Firefox 44.0 on Ubuntu 15.10 / 14.04 LTS /12.04 LTS, LinuxMint 17 / 16 / 15 , Fedora , 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 44.0 on January 26th 2016
Firefox 44.0 Changelog
New features:
- Improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections
- Enable H.264 if system decoder is available
- Enable WebM/VP9 video support on systems that don't support MP4/H.264
- Windows XP and Vista screensaver doesn't disable when watching videos
- To support unicode-range descriptor for webfonts, font matching under Linux now uses the same font matching code as other platforms
- Use a SHA-256 signing certificate for Windows builds, to meet new signing requirements
- Firefox has removed support for the RC4 decipher
- Firefox will no longer trust the Equifax Secure Certificate Authority 1024-bit root certificate or the UTN - DATACorp SGC to validate secure website certificates
Method 1 (For Debian based systems) Via PPA
Best and easy way is to upgrade firefox by updating the Repository, it will automatically upgraded to new version
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgradeMethod 2 : Via tar file
Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 44 from their FTP site using wget
For 32 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/44.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-44.0.tar.bz2For 64 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/44.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-44.0.tar.bz2Step 2: Extract the tar package
tar -xjf firefox-44.0.tar.bz2Step 3: Move the Firefox 44 folder to opt and remove the Older version of firefox if it's there
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox44Step 4: Create Symbolic link for New Firefox as default
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox44/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
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