Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Firefox 33.1 stable has been recently released, coming with a bunch of impressive changes, including a new Forget button for clearing the history, placed close to the address bar, better Tiles a new privacy tour and DuckDuckGo as a search engine option.
The Forget Button is not available by default, so the users that want it need to go to the Preferences Menu, press Customize and drag the Forget button to the toolbar.
For more information, see the release notes.
In this article I will show you how to install Firefox 33.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Pinguy OS 14.04, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Debian Jessie, Debian Wheezy, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 12.3, Mageia 4, OpenMandriva 2014, Arch Linux and Manjaro systems.
Because Firefox 33.1 is not available via any repository yet, we have to download Firefox 33.1 from the Mozilla site, extract the archive, move to /opt and alias the launcher.
Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Firefox 33.1 on 32 bit Linux systems:
$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/33.1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-33.1.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox-33.1.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox33.1
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox33.1/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
To start Firefox 33.1, just open a terminal, type firefox and hit enter.
How to install Firefox 33.1 on 64 bit Linux systems:
$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/33.1/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-33.1.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox-33.1.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox33.1
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox33.1/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
To start Firefox 33.1, just open a terminal, type firefox and hit enter.
Note: This will replace the version of Firefox you have already on your system with Firefox 33.