Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts

Thursday 28 July 2011

Install Firefox 5 on CentOS 6

By default CentOS 6 comes with firefox 3.6.
Here's how to Install Firefox 5 on CentOS 6:

1. Log on as root.
2. Download firefox-5.0.1.tar.bz2 or later from http://www.getfirefox.com to Downloads folder.
3. Also download an appropriate version of libstdc++.so.6, in this case the version from Fedora 13 i686 will work:

Friday 22 July 2011

Install Firefox 5 or 4 in RHEL, CentOS, Fedora

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. As of March 2011, Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.
The latest Firefox features include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing (also known as "geolocation") based exclusively on a Google service and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations. Functions can be added through extensions, created by third-party developers of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users.
Firefox runs on various operating systems including Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and many other platforms. Its current stable release is version 5.0, released on June 21, 2011. Firefox's source code is tri-licensed under the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, or Mozilla Public License.
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