BleepingComputer.com: Firefox 4 Install Instructions For Ubuntu 10.4 and 10.10

Installed Firefox 4 this morning. Used the instructions below. Worked perfectly. (took 4 minutes to download FF4, though)
I closed FF and other programs during downloading. After downloading and installing, ran FF4 and all was well. Restarted
Ubuntu, too. Though not necessary. FF4 is a few seconds slower to load than 3.6 was.
How To Install Firefox 4 (Stable) In Ubuntu [10.04 and 10.10]

1. If you are using the development version of Firefox from our earlier post, remove it with the command,

sudo apt-get remove firefox-4.0

If you are not using the development version, skip this step.

2. Now add the Firefox stable PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

3. Now update the software list

sudo apt-get update

4. Finally install Firefox 4 with the command.

sudo apt-get install firefox

After installation, you will find Firefox under Applications > Internet > Firefox Web Browser.

You like blue? Check this site out. Firefox 4 Download Stats

Thanks for this post. I had installed Firefox 4 manually in /opt/ but was wondering how to get Linux to update the baked-in version to 4.0

Thanks!

buddy215, on 25 March 2011 - 08:36 PM, said:

Yes, I do like blue. I saw that not long after 4.0 went public. Pretty cool.

This post has been edited by keyboardNinja: 27 March 2011 - 10:07 AM

You're welcome. Interesting that the blue site even breaks down the downloads to towns. My little home town has to date 388 downloads.

I read recently that Firefox had almost 3 times the first day downloads as IE9. Probably the main reason for that is XP users can't get it.
XP according to reports still account for more than 60% of Windows users.

IE9 is getting rave reviews on some techie sites.

This post has been edited by buddy215: 27 March 2011 - 02:23 PM