Reproduced How to Install Firefox in CentOS, Redhat and other Linux distributions

from:http://tecadmin.net/install-firefox-on-linux/

Firefox been released for Systems and Android in October, with various bug fixes and UPDA Tes. Below is the list of few changes which are made in Firefox 33. Read More details about this release of Firefox.

What ' s New in Firefox 33

• OpenH264 support available.
• Improved search experience through the location bar.
• Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings.
• Support for connecting-HTTP proxy over HTTPS.
• New CSP (Content Security Policy) backend.
• and various bug fixes ...

This article is to install Firefox in CentOS, RHEL Systems. This article would use Firefox to source code available for Linux systems, which doesn ' t required any compilation etc. We need to just extract the archived file and start using it.

Step 1:download Firefox Archive

Download the Firefox, source code as per your system platform using one of following set of commands.

For 32-bit Systems

# cd/usr/local# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/33.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-33.0.tar.bz2

For 64-bit Systems

# cd/usr/local# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/33.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-33.0.tar.bz2

Step 2:extract Archive

Extract the downloaded archive file on your system using following command.

# tar XVJF firefox-33.0.tar.bz2

Step 3:configure Firefox

To install Firefox we don't need to do any installation, we just need to create a softlink of the Firefox binary file to sys TEMs Bin directory to make it accessible from anywhere in system.

# ln-s/usr/local/firefox/firefox/usr/bin/firefox

Now start Firefox using command line

# Firefox

Reproduced How to Install Firefox in CentOS, Redhat and other Linux distributions