I’ve just downloaded the new development version of Mozilla Firefox 32 Beta 9 and now testing on my Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. I do impressed with the performance of this Firefox 32 Beta 9. You should test this version on your distribution as well. On this tutorial, I am going to show you how to run this Firefox 32 Beta 9 on Ubuntu 14.04 and all its derivatives such as Linux Lite 2.0, Elementary OS Freya, PinguyOS 14.04, Zorin OS 9, Deepin 2014.
Mozilla Firefox 32 Beta 9 new features:
- New HTTP caching (v2) enabled by default
- Integration of generational garbage collection
- Public key pinning support enabled
- Login metadata viewable in password manager
- Display the number of found items in the find toolbar Code completion and inline documentation added to Scratchpad
- Connect to HTTP proxy over HTTPS Performance improvements to Password Manager and Add-on Manager Removed and turned off trust bit for some 1024-bit root certificates Vibration API updated to latest W3C spec
- CSS box-decoration-break replaces -moz-background-inline-policy
- ECMAScript 6 built-in method Array#copyWithin implemented (docs)
How to install Mozilla Firefox 32 Beta 9 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr
Open Terminal and run this command
For 64 bit
wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/32.0b9/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-32.0b9.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf firefox-32.0b9.tar.bz2
cd firefox
./firefox
For 32 bit
wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/32.0b9/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-32.0b9.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf firefox-32.0b9.tar.bz2
cd firefox
./firefox