Install Firefox 26 on Fedora 20/19, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5
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Mozilla Firefox 26 is released and this is guide, howto install Firefox 26 on Fedora 20/19/18/17/16, CentOS 6.5/6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5/6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 using YUM. Firefox 17 ESR (Extended Support Release) is currently available on CentOS 6.5/5.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5/5.10 own repos, so with this guide you can also install Firefox 17 ESR on CentOS 5.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.10.
What’s new in Firefox 26⌗
- All Java plug-ins are defaulted to ‘click to play’
- Password manager now supports script-generated password fields
- Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed
- Support for the CSS image orientation property
- There is no longer a prompt when websites use appcache
- Various security fixes
What’s new in Firefox 17 (ESR)⌗
- First revision of the Social API and support for Facebook Messenger
- Updated Awesome Bar experience with larger icons
- JavaScript Maps and Sets are now iterable
- Improvements that make the Web Console, Debugger and Developer Toolbar faster and easier to use
- New Markup panel in the Page Inspector allows easy editing of the DOM
- Sandbox attribute for iframes implemented, enabling increased security
- Over twenty performance improvements, including fixes around the New Tab page
- Security fixes
Read full details from Firefox 26 release notes and Firefox 17 release notes.
Install Mozilla Firefox 26/17 on Fedora 20/19/18/17/16, CentOS 6.5/6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5/6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.10⌗
1. Backup your current Firefox 3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23/24/25 profiles (just in case)⌗
tar -cvzf $HOME/mozilla-firefox-profiles-backup.tar.gz $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/
2. Change root user⌗
su -
## OR ##
sudo -i
3. Install Remi repository⌗
Note: Currently not needed on Fedora 20/19/18, CentOS 5.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.10.
Fedora 17/16⌗
## Fedora 17 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-17.rpm
## Fedora 16 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-16.rpm
CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6⌗
## Remi Dependency on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
## CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
4. Check Available Firefox versions⌗
Fedora 20/19/18⌗
yum list firefox
Fedora 17/16, CentOS 6.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5⌗
yum --enablerepo=remi list firefox
CentOS 5.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.10⌗
yum list firefox
Note: Firefox 17 ESR available.
5. Update or Install Mozilla Firefox 26/17⌗
Fedora 20/19/18⌗
yum update firefox
## OR ##
yum install firefox
Fedora 17/16, CentOS 6.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.5⌗
yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox
## OR ##
yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox
CentOS 5.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.10⌗
yum update firefox
## OR ##
yum install firefox
Note: Firefox 17 ESR available.
6. Start Firefox 26/17⌗
Then start Firefox with using command:
firefox
Or use Firefox (26/17) launcher.