Install Firefox 28 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Firefox 28 has been released two days ago, bringing new features such as media enhancement and VP9 video decoding, but currently we can only download it to Firefox 27 on the official website, what about installing Firefox 28 on Linux Mint and other releases?

The following small series will show you how:

1. Install Firefox 28 on 32-bit linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, and OpenMandriva:

Wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-28.0.tar.bz2

Tar-xjvf firefox-28.0.tar.bz2

Sudo rm-r/opt/firefox *

Sudo mv firefox/opt/firefox28

Sudo ln-s/opt/firefox28/firefox/usr/bin/firefox

2. Install Firefox 28 on 64-bit linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, and OpenMandriva:

Wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-28.0.tar.bz2

Tar-xjvf firefox-28.0.tar.bz2

Sudo rm-r/opt/firefox *

Sudo mv firefox/opt/firefox28

Sudo ln-s/opt/firefox28/firefox/usr/bin/firefox

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