The Ubuntu developers have now decided to switch older versions of Ubuntu, specifically the 10.04 LTS and 10.10 releases, to current releases of Firefox. The new policy will come into place on 17 January when users of those two editions will see their Firefox updated to the current version.

The Ubuntu developers are now tracking Mozilla’s rapid release cycle, releasing the updated version 8.0 of Mozilla’s Firefox and Thunderbird. Previously, Ubuntu distributions would have stuck with the major version they were released with, say 3.0, and only updated to the minor versions as they arrived, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 and so on

In February of this year, Mozilla announced its shift to a new, rapid release cycle, and the company has stuck to the plan. You can now get Firefox 8, which Mozilla has made very clear is a major upgrade of the browser. Also, all Ubuntu 11.10 users can now upgrade their default browsers to Firefox [...]

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) users how to update their systems to the Mozilla Firefox 9.0 web browser.

All you need to do is add a PPA and run upgrade and your Ubuntu will be running the latest and the greatest version of Firefox. Open the terminal and run this command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next

Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0 is now the default email client and Mozilla Firefox 6.0 is the default web browser. Unity menu and launcher integration has also been added for Thunderbird.

Well, that did not take long! Firefox 5 was officially released only yesterday and today the Ubuntu 11.04 repository has been updated with Firefox 5.

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth is a big fan of Google Chrome, and says the browser could replace the standard Firefox in future versions of Ubuntu Linux.

This howto explains how to install Firefox 5 Beta on Linux distros, without replacing your current Firefox installation. Firefox 5 Beta 3 has been released on June 2, 2011. The final release date is set to June 21.

In this short guide I will show you how you can install the new Mozilla Firefox 4.0 browser (released March 22, 2011) on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. Fortunately, there’s a Launchpad PPA repository that has Firefox 4.0 .deb packages, so we can easily install it through Ubuntu’s package manager.

Why Mozilla? Why do you continue to pretend FreeDesktop users love to unpack tar files and either compile their software or worse extract a zip file of binaries with duplicated libs into opt.

Earlier today, we reported that Firefox 4 has just been released. Why do you need instructions to install the newest Firefox in Ubuntu? If you go into your Ubuntu Software Center, you’ll see that you more than likely have Firefox 3.6 installed, and it’s “up to date”.

This howto explains how to install Firefox 4 (Beta) on Linux distros, without replacing your current Firefox installation.

Firefox 4 is available at the moment as a preview and already it has been very popular. Here is a quick guide on how to test out the new Firefox 4 in Ubuntu.

Firefox 4 is all over over the news and the funny thing is, Firefox 4 final release has not even happened yet. Firefox 4 beta 6 was released recently and it boasts of key performance improvements and a number of new and useful features like Tab Candy. Let’s do a quick look at the latest [...]

Firefox 4 is almost ready for prime time! It offers lots of new features and is currently in beta. As such not all distributions have installer packages for it (and those that do don’t always update them right away).

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 Pre has been released.If you want to test the latest Mozilla Firefox beta release in Ubuntu,you can add ubuntu-mozilla-daily ppa into your repository.It should add the latest packages as quickly as possible.

Firefox 4 is now available in beta and it seems that a lot of users are already making the transition. A lot of users have been having a little trouble installing the new Firefox 4 on Ubuntu, so we thought we would put together the guide.

Firefox 3.6.6 with crash protection is now available, and according to Mozilla it “provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins

According to a posting on the Ubuntu developers mailing list, Ubuntu developers are planning to push the next release of Firefox, 3.6.4, to the current Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx 10.04, and to older versions such as Hardy (8.04LTS), Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic Koala (9.10). These older versions currently have Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 both [...]

I’ve tried Google’s Chrome web browser on a Windows VM and like it, so I decided to install Chromium on the Lucid VM. Seemed to go great guns at first but then hit major snags.

Potentially big news in the world of open source software, friends. Apparently Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, is considering dropping Firefox for Chrome. Well, maybe for Chrome, or maybe for Chromium, the open source project that Chrome is based upon.

I am here to tell you, at least with Ubuntu 10.04, there is a simple way of installing Java. That’s is the purpose of this article. Of course I will also take this one step further and show you how to make Firefox aware of your java installation.

However the truth is that it is not Google Chrome which may replace Firefox; it is Chromium. While Google has released most of the Chrome code to the Chromium Project, Chrome still has some closed-source codes and come packaged with proprietary software

The next edition of the Ubuntu Linux distribution could come with added Google, with rumours circulating that Canonical is looking to replace Mozilla’s Firefox with Google’s Chrome browser.

Firefox 3.6.3 comes standard with a Ubuntu 10.04 install, but if you want to watch YouTube videos using Adobe flash, you will have to install the plugin yourself.

NoScript, which is one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox, allows you to only run Java and other executable content from domains that you trust. This greatly enhances the security of the Firefox’s browsing experience. However, this time, it’s the OS that seems to be causing the problems.

This is how anyone can fix the Firefox slow problem in Ubuntu 10.04

The latest Firefox build, Firefox 3.6.2 is released. And Ubuntuzilla Repository is the easiest way to install Firefox 3.6.2 in Ubuntu.

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).