Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: Firefox

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<u><span style="color: #990000;">Install Firefox 45 on CentOS, Ubuntu & Other Linux</span></u></h2>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Firefox 45 Released for systems and Android on March 8, 2016 with various bug fixes and updates. Below is the list of few changes which is made in this release of firefox. Read more details about this <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/45.0/releasenotes/">release </a>of Firefox.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">This article will help you to install Firefox 45 on <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos">CentOS</a>, <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/RHEL">Red Hat</a>, <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Debian">Debian</a>, CloudLinux Linux and other <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Linux%20Tutorial">Linux operating systems</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>1. Remove Existing Version’s</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">First remove any existing version of Firefox from your system if installed using rpm. Red Hat based system use following command.</span></span></div>
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<pre style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(60, 60, 60); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"># yum remove firefox
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">2. Downloading Latest Firefox Archive</span></u></b></div>
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Download the latest Firefox archive from <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-i686/en-US/">here (32 bit)</a> and <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/">here (64 bit)</a>. At the time of last update of this article Firefox 45 is the latest version available. Download Firefox 45 source code as per your system architecture using one of following commands.</div>
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"># cd /usr/local
# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/45.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-45.0.tar.bz2</span></pre>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>64-Bit Systems</u></b></span></span></div>
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<pre style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(60, 60, 60); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"># cd /usr/local
# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/45.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-45.0.tar.bz2</span></pre>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">3. Extract Archive on System</span></u></b></div>
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After downloading latest version of Firefox archive on your system, let’s extract is using following command.</div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">4. Configure Firefox</span></u></b></div>
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Firefox source is completely pre compiled and we don’t have to do anything to make it running on system. We just need to create a soft-link of Firefox binary file to systems bin directory to make it accessible from anywhere in system.</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Now start Firefox using following command from Linux terminal. You may also use GUI menu to start Firefox on your system</span></span></div>
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How to Install Firefox 45 on CentOS, Ubuntu & Other Linux

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