I still recommend using Swiftfox over Firefox, but if you really want to use Firefox, there is a PPA (many people might prefer this over the Mozilla Daily PPA which has daily Firefox builds).

All you need to do is to get the latest version of Ubuntuzilla, a python script which pretty much gets the job done, and you will have you Firefox 3.6 installed and ready to rock.

This is a short tutorial which will show how to install Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala from the Mozilla Daily PPA.

I did a routine update to one of my Ubuntu installations this morning, and lo and behold it failed during the Firefox update. Even after a cold reboot I was unable to start Firefox, it was broken.

Back when I began the WebCenter VM series, I mentioned my latest problem with Ubuntu. My bout with the flu took away all the extra time I had planned to spend on geekery. So, this weekend, I’ve been catching up on my projects.

Before installing: remember, this is just beta pre so expect some bugs. If you are convinced to upgrade to Firefox 3.6, here’s what you need to do to install it in Ubuntu.

The Firefox web browser on the other hand is a different matter all together. So for you Ubuntu Hedz, you’re best off using Ubuntuzilla, a python script that gets around incompatibility issues.

Accessing files in Firefox cache is never too easy. May be because location of cache folder is not known to every one. Even if you know the cache location, you wont be able to access files as they are all encrypted.

Mozilla has released an update for Firefox 3.5.2. Previously we shared tutorial about how you can update Firefox to version 3.5.2. In this tutorial, i will assume that you have already installed Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 and you want to upgrade it to version 3.5.3.

Since I never remember how to do this, I figured I’d put it up here. This assumes you already have Java installed, and note this is for 32-bit. I’ll be getting a shiny new 64-bit laptop very soon, and from what I understand things are a bit different on 64-bit.

The Ubuntu development team has been forced to remove a feature called multisearch from Firefox for the upcoming release, Karmic Koala, following a number of objections by users.

A few minutes ago, the Ubuntu development team unleashed the fourth alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system, which is scheduled for release in late October this year. As usual, we’ve downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up to date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu [...]

Ubuntu recently released an unannounced and experimental ‘multisearch’ extension to Firefox alpha 3, apparently in an effort to improve the default behavior of new tabs and of search. In a response to one of the initial bug reports the maintainers mentioned that the extension’s other purposes were ‘collecting the usage data’ and ‘generating revenue.’

Here is a small tutorial about how you can update your Mozilla Firefox to version 3.5.2 in Ubuntu? All you need is to download and type one command in terminal. It will do the rest for you.

Here’s a few tips and tricks about how to speed up your Flash and Firefox on Ubuntu

In my previous post on installing Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04, I explained how to install Ubuntu’s firefox-3.5 package. As several commenters and I realized, this may not be the best solution. The package is branded Shiretoko instead of Firefox 3.5, including the user agent string which can cause compatibly problems with some websites.

I was sorely disappointed when I booted into Ubuntu today. There was an update for the firefox package, and I thought to myself, finally they upgraded to 3.5!. No such luck, as I found out through Help > About: I was running 3.0.12.

Because it needs to be approved, customized, and otherwise vetted by the maintainers of Ubuntu Linux’s repositories, the just-released Firefox 3.5 isn’t officially available on that system. With one terminal command, though, open-sourcers can grab and install a working copy.

Firefox 3.5 was officially released yesterday and it brings significant improvements in terms of speed, tab management and support of HTML5. Ubuntu does not automatically propose the upgrade so you need to help the system find the newer packages. Let’s start by listing the least effective ways of getting those packages.

The Firefox version which comes in Ubuntu has Pango enabled by default. Pango is a font smoothing library which decreases Firefox speed by up to 45%.

Since Ubuntu Jaunty comes with version 3.0.11, if you want to try the new Firefox 3.5 release all you have to do is follow the few steps below:

So I was getting a bit frustrated with the responsiveness of my Ubuntu Firefox when compared to the Firefox installed on my Windows machine. I’d tried everything I could find, from about:config tweaks to disabling IPv6 support, but still Firefox remained one area where the Windows experience was actually noticeably faster.

Some websites need Internet Explorer to work properly. In Ubuntu, there is no direct support for IE. Here are some alternatives for Internet Explorer in Ubuntu…

The smoked glass, Mac-like notification alerts are one of Ubuntu 9.04’s best features, but they’re not yet compatible with every program, including Firefox. An experimental extension can fix that, moving download notifications into Jaunty Jackalope’s pop-ups.

If you are on the latest Ubuntu release, you might have seen the new notification system that is used by the operating system. Firefox on the other hand has its own notification system.

In the third and final part of this series we look at how to transfer bookmarks and other Firefox settings from Windows to Ubuntu. We also look at a step you could take it you decide to use Ubuntu as your main operating system.

I described an update to the Firefox userChrome.css file that makes it display secure HTTPS web pages with a green address bar. The idea being, to make HTTPS pages more obvious and thus, hopefully, we can train ourselves to only enter sensitive information on green web pages.

To expand on a comment thread from Vaughan-Nichols’ posting, here’s my experience trying to update Firefox in the latest version (8.10) of Ubuntu . This is should be low-hanging fruit, after all, you can’t get any more mainstream than Ubuntu and Firefox.

I became completely frustrated with the slow pace of Firefox on Ubuntu recently and finally snapped, sending a plaintive note to Facebook, ” why is the speed of Firefox on Ubuntu becoming unbearably slow?