How to install firefox 4.0 beta using ubuntu PPA
Firefox 4 Beta (version 1) considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, though the features and content may change before the final product release. At this time many Add-ons may not yet have been tested by their authors to ensure that they are compatible with this release.
What is new in firefox beta1 from here
Install firefox 4.0 beta in Ubuntu 10.10/10.04/9.10
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-4.0
“considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing”
As this is a daily PPA don’t expect it to be “stable and safe”… 😉
From the PPA site: “daily (or even multiple builds per day) for various mozilla projects and branches.”
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa
I tried this on my G3 iMac running Ubuntu 10.04. The final apt-get firefox-4.0 step fails saying “no installation candidate”. It is a PPC machine of course, so do I need to use another PPA, or is firefox 4 just unavailable on my architecture at the moment?
WARvault
Gricias, really help me to install this.
I wouldn’t recommend using the daily branch unless you want an unstable web browser, or your testing for the mozilla team.
For a more stable branch, use the stable PPA:
ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable