In this Tutorial I will show you how to install Firefox 45 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS /12.04 LTS, LinuxMint 17 / 16 / 15 , Fedora , CentOS 6...
In this Tutorial I will show you how to install Firefox 45 on Ubuntu 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.
and it comes with its private mode and powerful plugins
Firefox Released its new stable Version 45.0 on March 8th 2016
Changelog in Firefox 45.0
- Instant browser tab sharing through Hello
- Tabs synced via Firefox Accounts from other devices are now shown in dropdown area of Awesome Bar when searching
- GTK3 integration (GNU/Linux only). Disabled after beta 4
- Synced Tabs button in button bar
- Introduce a new preference (network.dns.blockDotOnion) to allow blocking .onion at the DNS level
- Guarani [gn] locale added
- URLs containing a Unicode-format Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) are now properly redirected
- Tab Groups (Panorama) feature removed
- Push API support, part of Progressive Web Applications
- Support delivery of a Content Security Policy (CSP) via a meta tag
- Web Speech synthesis API
- ES6 Classes
Installation Steps:
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 versionsudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Method 2 : Via tar file
Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 45 from their FTP using wgetFor 32 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-45.0.tar.bz2
For 64 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-45.0.tar.bz2Step 2: Extract the tar package
tar -xjf firefox-45.0.tar.bz2Step 3: Move the Firefox 45 folder to opt
Remove the Older version of firefox if it's there
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox45Step 4: Create Symbolic link for New Firefox as default
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox45/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Step5:Check the installed version by using the below command
# firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 45.0
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