Is there a deb package to install Firefox ESR?
It has a PPA here, but it is not launched yet, so we have to install it manually:
I suppose that you have a 32bit edition on Ubuntu, and you are using English language:
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Let's download it:
wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/10.0.2esr/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-10.0.2esr.tar.bz2
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We will extract it to
/opt
:sudo tar -xvjf firefox-10.0.2.tar.bz2 -C /opt
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Let's move away the normal Firefox link:
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-old
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Linking the new Firefox:
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
That's it. Enjoy!
Note: if you want to upgrade afterwards, launch it with gksudo firefox
, and choose Help > About Firefox
menu, and see if any updates are available. If yes, apply them.
For Ubuntu Trusty and Xenial exists new Jonathon F's PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/firefox-esr
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-esr
It maybe very useful because of new Firefox add-on policy.
I have installed 10 add-ons and 9 of them are marked as LEGACY.
There is a semi-official ppa now, I suggest to use this. There is also a description how to add and get it automatically update.
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa