Tag Archives: Firefox

Installing Firefox on Debian Wheezy

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Taro

I don’t like to get stuck with a very old version of browser, so I install a Firefox binary provided by Mozilla, not the one by Debian. Make sure to download a 64-bit version (as I use amd64) from here. … Continue reading →

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Installing Firefox 9 on Debian Squeeze

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Taro

The questionable move by Firefox to the rapid release schedule has me disappointed.  A little bugs here and there, incompatible add-ons, and so on.  Seriously, the major, if not the most important advantage of Firefox is all these add-ons we … Continue reading →

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Installing Firefox 4 Beta 9 on Debian Squeeze

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Taro

I find the easiest way is to download a precompiled binary from this nightly build repository. For beta 9 on AMD64: $ wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-4.0b9pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 $ tar -xvjf firefox*.tar.bz2 $ sudo mv firefox /usr/local/firefox4-b9pre $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox4-b9pre /usr/local/firefox4 $ … Continue reading →

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Installing Firefox 4 Beta on Debian Squeeze

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Taro

Update: I think the following note that I made a while ago is no longer applicable. Please visit: http://mozilla.debian.net/ for a more streamlined installation via apt-get. Caution: This note won’t work for a version >= Beta 8-1.  Unfortunately the new … Continue reading →

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