Mozilla Firefox 6 is released and this is guide, howto install Firefox 6 on Fedora 15, Fedora 14, Fedora 13, Fedora 12 and Fedora 11 using YUM. This is not big deal for Fedora 15 users, because Firefox 6 found on update repos, but this is good for older Fedora users.
What’s new in Firefox 8
- The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you’re visiting
- Support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
- Support for EventSource / Server-sent events
- Support for window.matchMedia
- Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
- New Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
- Improved usability of the Web Console
- Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
- Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
Read full details from Firefox 6 release notes.
Install Mozilla Firefox 6 on Fedora 15, Fedora 14, Fedora 13, Fedora 12 and Fedora 11
1. Backup your current Firefox 3/4 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 (needed only for Fedora 14 and Fedora 13)
## Remi Dependency on Fedora 14, Fedora 13, Fedora 12 and Fedora 11 ##
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 16 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-16.rpm
## Fedora 15 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-15.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
## Fedora 12 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-12.rpm
## Fedora 11 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-11.rpm
4. Check Available Firefox 6 versions
Fedora 15/16
yum list firefox
Fedora 14/13/12/11
yum --enablerepo=remi list firefox
5. Install Mozilla Firefox
Fedora 15/16
yum install firefox
Fedora 14/13/12/11
yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox xulrunner6
6. Start Firefox
Then start Firefox with using command:
Fedora 16/15/14/13
Fedora 16/15/14/13
firefox
