Install firefox 7 stable in Ubuntu 11.10/10.04/10.10

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Firefox 7.0 final has been released on September 27th, in this version it has the following changes:

Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
The ‘http://’ URL prefix is now hidden by default
Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
Added support for the Web Timing specification
Enhanced support for MathML
The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
Fixed several stability issues
Fixed several security issues

For more, see firefox release notes

Installation

1.) Download Firefox 7.0 for non installation: FTP downloading.
Just download and extract firefox-7.0.tar.bz2, and then click the file to launch Firefox 7.0

2.) Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 user can install Firefox 7 from firefox-stable/ppa by running following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

3.) Ubuntu 11.10 user can upgrade from default installed Firefox 7 beta via update-manager or by running:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I’m running Ubuntu Oneiric beta, I don’t know If Firefox 7 is available in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty’s universe repository. So tell me how if you installed Firefox 7 final in Natty.

5 users responded in " Install firefox 7 stable in Ubuntu 11.10/10.04/10.10 "

Richard Gray said, in September 29th, 2011 at 7:48 am

I’m unable to upgrade to 7.0 at this time. Seems like natty doesn’t recognize the Firefox repositories.

bece said, in September 30th, 2011 at 12:53 am

I have installed Firefox 7.0 with a “apt-get upgrade” in ubuntu 11.04

Tynach said, in September 30th, 2011 at 8:29 am

7.0 was not available to Natty users due to a bug that Canonical did not want out there in the mainstream world. So, they instead waited for the almost immediate 7.0.1 release. Firefox 7.0.1 is in the official update repositories for Natty – you don’t even need to use the ‘firefox-stable’ repository.

BakLiams said, in October 4th, 2011 at 6:40 am

Firefox 7.0.1 available for 11.04

First, uninstall your previous firefox then run terminal and follow these command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

lol, and you just got lastes firefox 7.0.1 version

fawzy Kattoa said, in November 10th, 2011 at 6:26 am

firefox 7 does not send comments in comment space like this one, instead it asks to save or open with an application. How to fix. Thanks

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