Install Firefox 5 on Fedora 15/14/13

Updated by on Aug 19, 2011 in Desktop Guides, Fedora, Install Guides, Linux | 8 comments


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Mozilla Firefox 5 is released and this is guide, howto install Firefox 5 on Fedora 15, Fedora 14 and Fedora 13 using YUM. It’s important to take backups of all Firefox profiles before install, because this major version upgrade and can behave in any unpredictable way.

What’s new in Firefox 5

  • Support for CSS animations
  • The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
  • Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance
  • Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
  • Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
  • Improved spell checking for some locales
  • Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users

Read full details from Firefox 5 release notes.

Install Mozilla Firefox 5 on Fedora 15, Fedora 14 and Fedora 13

1. Backup your current Firefox 3/4 profiles

tar -cvzf $HOME/mozilla-firefox-profiles-backup.tar.gz $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/

2. Change root user

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

3. Install Remi repository (needed only for Fedora 14 and Fedora 13)

## Remi Dependency on Fedora 14 and Fedora 13 ##
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm 
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
 
## Fedora 14 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm
 
## Fedora 13 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-13.rpm

4. Check Available Firefox 5 versions

Fedora 15

yum list firefox

Fedora 14 and Fedora 13

yum --enablerepo=remi list firefox5

5. Install Mozilla Firefox 5

Fedora 15

yum install firefox

Fedora 14 and Fedora 13

yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox5

6. Start Firefox 5

Then start Firefox with using command:
Fedora 15

firefox

Fedora 14 and Fedora 13

firefox5

Or use Firefox 5 launcher.

Firefox 5 Screenshots

Firefox 5 running on Fedora 15

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8 Comments

  1. Trevor / July 10, 2011

    I the following error:

    Error: Package: gjs-0.7.14-3.fc15.i686 (@koji-override-0/$releasever)
    Requires: gecko-libs(x86-32) = 2.0.1
    Removing: xulrunner-2.0.1-1.fc15.i686 (@koji-override-0/$releasever)
    gecko-libs(x86-32) = 2.0.1-1
    Updated By: xulrunner-5.0-2.fc15.i686 (updates)
    gecko-libs(x86-32) = 5.0-1
    You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
    ** Found 165 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), ‘yum check’ output follows:
    …

    skip-broken does not allow the install to complete.

    I just installed fedora 15 today, updated the software from the software update panel, installed chrome, then attempted to install firefox with the above instructions.

    Reply
    • JR / July 11, 2011

      Hi Trevor,

      Please post following command output:

      yum repolist
      Reply
  2. Eric / July 16, 2011

    Great post! Very informative and easy to follow. It is almost a month later and I just found out that Firefox 5 was final! Thanks again for all your help.

    Reply
  3. ajeet / July 19, 2011

    thanks for these information i use fedora13 tried and just done quick…

    thanks……

    Reply
  4. bgr / July 20, 2011

    Do you know where I can find the thunderbird 5 rpm to fedora 13?

    Reply
    • JR / July 20, 2011

      Hi bgr,

      I think Thunderbird 5 is coming on Remi repos, but it’s not available yet.

      Btw. it’s highly recommend to update at least Fedora 14. :)

      Reply
  5. rodrigo / July 31, 2011

    thanks men, it works for me

    Reply
  6. Tim / August 8, 2011

    TB5 is available on Remi. At least as of this comment. I just loaded it.

    Reply

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