How to upgrade firefox in Ubuntu
10. November 2011
A good fox does not eat his neighbor’s fowl!
-French proverb
This post is supposed to be just a reminder for me on how to upgrade the default Firefox on Ubuntu. 10.04 uses Firefox 3.6.23 when Firefox has released version 5, 6, 7 and very recently 8 in 2011 itself. Mozilla had announced this development plan.
To upgrade the Firefox version to the most recent one, you ll need to run the usual update and upgrade commands on apt-get and then add the following ppa to the Ubuntu repository list:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
After that again
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
And Firefox should be at its most recent offering which is 8 as of today.