How to install firefox 6 on ubuntu
Firefox (formerly known as Phoenix and Firebird) is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component. It is similar to Galeon, K-Meleon, and Chimera, but it is written using the XUL user interface language and was designed to be cross-platform.
What is new in firefox 6
The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visiting
Streamlined the look of the site identity block
Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
Added support for window.matchMedia
Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
Improved usability of the Web Console
Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
Fixed several stability issues
Fixed several security issues
Install firefox 6 on ubuntu
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Localize your firefox 6 using the following command
sudo apt-get install firefox-locale-$code
where code is the two-letter symbol of your language.
or you could just run update as it was added to the normal repos yesterday
Firefox 6 has been released on August 16
just tape
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
or use google chrome and not care about mozilla updates *trollface*
actually you can download it from official website
Just download and unpack from the official site or go to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest-6.0 and grab it from there. It’s alot fast than the repos 😉
Btw Alexandr: GC sucks.. sorry to say so.
personally rather sudo aptitude install firefox
instead of sudo apt-get upgrade.
skips unwanted upgrades.
I like this! Mint 9 would only update Firefox to 3.6.22, which is sort of old. Later versions of Mint/Ubuntu updates FF to a current version.
Or like Alexandr said, you can always use Google Chrome, it’s faster anyway.
thanks, that was clear and simple 😉
How do I unpack the firefox-6.0.2.tar.bz2 file
and what must I do after unpacking?
Hello guys I have a linux ubuntu 10.10 vps located in germany , I tried this list of commands but no way . eg : when i tried the first command it appeared to me this message :
“Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/add-apt-repository”, line 8, in
from softwareproperties.SoftwareProperties import SoftwareProperties
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py”, line 48, in
import aptsources.distro
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py”, line 29, in
from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
MemoryError ” .
Finnaly I hope you gana answer as soon as you can . thank you By Wajdi Abderrahmen !
Its help full >>>>
Thanks