August 18, 2011 · General ·

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.

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10 Comments to “How to install firefox 6 on ubuntu”

  1. Dirk says:

    or you could just run update as it was added to the normal repos yesterday

  2. Agathe says:

    Firefox 6 has been released on August 16
    just tape

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade

  3. Alexandr says:

    or use google chrome and not care about mozilla updates *trollface*

    actually you can download it from official website

  4. cYbercOsmOnauT says:

    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.

  5. amir says:

    personally rather sudo aptitude install firefox
    instead of sudo apt-get upgrade.
    skips unwanted upgrades.

  6. catilley1092 says:

    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.

  7. ammar bozorgvar says:

    thanks, that was clear and simple 😉

  8. KOmaSHOOTER says:

    How do I unpack the firefox-6.0.2.tar.bz2 file
    and what must I do after unpacking?

  9. Wajdi Abderrahmen says:

    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 !

  10. arun says:

    Its help full >>>>
    Thanks

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