原文：
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-firefox-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/
Install Firefox 24 on Fedora 19/18, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4
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Mozilla Firefox 24 is released and this is guide, howto install Firefox 24 on Fedora 19/18/17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 using YUM. Firefox 17 ESR (Extended Support Release) is currently available on CentOS 6.4/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/5.9 own repos, so with this guide you can also install Firefox 17 ESR on CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9.
What’s new in Firefox 24
- Mixed content blocking enabled to protects users from man-in-the-middle attacks and eavesdroppers on HTTPS pages
- Implemented Close tabs to the right
- Social: Ability to tear-off chat windows to view separately by simply dragging them out
- Performance improvements on New Tab Page loads
- Improved and unified Browser console for enhanced debugging experience, replacing existing Error console
- 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
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Install Mozilla Firefox 24/17 on Fedora 19/18/17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9
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 profiles (just in case)
tar -cvzf $HOME/mozilla-firefox-profiles-backup.tar.gz $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/ |
2. Change root user
3. Install Remi repository
Note: Currently not needed on Fedora 19/18, CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9.
Fedora 17/16/15/14
## Fedora 17 ##rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-17.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 |
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 19/18
Fedora 17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4
yum --enablerepo=remi list firefox |
CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9
Note: Firefox 17 ESR available.
5. Update or Install Mozilla Firefox 24/17
Fedora 19/18
yum update firefox## OR ##yum install firefox |
Fedora 17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4
yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox## OR ##yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox |
CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9
yum update firefox## OR ##yum install firefox |
Note: Firefox 17 ESR available.
6. Start Firefox 24/17
Then start Firefox with using command:
Or use Firefox (24/17) launcher.
