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Ron

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Registered: 2018-04-22

Posts: 517  

Re: What is best way to install latest version of Firefox?

VH wrote:
Mozilla tells you how to do that in their website:

You do realize this is a 7 year old thread?

VH

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Registered: 2018-07-31

Posts: 38  

Re: What is best way to install latest version of Firefox?

You do realize this is a 7 year old thread?

Sorry I didn't.  I shouldn't post on the one that is more than a certain period of time?  In that case, should I delete my post?

Last edited by VH (2024-08-22 01:35:08)

GlennW

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2019-07-18

Posts: 640  

Re: What is best way to install latest version of Firefox?

Hi VH, if you go here,

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

you may Download the latest release of Firefox, the next page will ask if you want 32bit or 64bit code.

Mostly choose 64bit.

the current version today is firefox-129.0.2.tar.bz2

Download it to a good place, like /home/$USER/Downloads

If you don't want to use, or don't have a web browser use the command line like this... change the user name to your user...

cd /home/glenn/Downloads
wget https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/129.0.2/linux-x86_64/en-GB/firefox-129.0.2.tar.bz2

once you have it downloaded you may install it as root (admin) with this,

untar it to /opt and change the link

cd /opt

tar xfj /home/glenn/local/archive/source/firefox-129.0.2.tar.bz2

# or tar xfj /home/glenn/Downloads/firefox-129.0.2.tar.bz2

# remove the old firefox links

mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold

# or after backup of bookmarks and passwordz

apt remove firefox-esr

# create new link

ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

# copy statusBar script.

#rsync -avh /home/glenn/build/userChrome.css /opt/firefox/browser/chrome/
chmod -R 755 /opt/firefox

In the future firefox may alert you of updates, and you could use the same proceedure to install the update over the old version.

I hope this helps.

edit, I mentioned this directory /home/glenn/local/archive/source/, I generally move the file before installing the program.

Last edited by GlennW (2024-08-22 22:26:47)

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SpongeBOB

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From: Brussels

Registered: 2022-02-07

Posts: 113  

Re: What is best way to install latest version of Firefox?

First thank you @VH I was just about to ask the question

I've tried your link.

but at the last step I got

su
apt-get update && apt-get install firefox
Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security InRelease             
Get:4 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla InRelease [1,528 B]         
Err:4 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla InRelease
  Unknown error executing apt-key
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla InRelease: Unknown error executing apt-key
E: The repository 'https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details

If anyone have an idea. ?

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SpongeBOB

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From: Brussels

Registered: 2022-02-07

Posts: 113  

Re: What is best way to install latest version of Firefox?

I also noticed that the third command

gpg -n -q --import --import-options import-show /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc | awk '/pub/{getline; gsub(/^ +| +$/,""); if($0 == "35BAA0B33E9EB396F59CA838C0BA5CE6DC6315A3") print "\nThe key fingerprint matches ("$0").\n"; else print "\nVerification failed: the fingerprint ("$0") does not match the expected one.\n"}'

gpg: keyblock resource '/root/.gnupg/pubring.kbx': No such file or directory

The key fingerprint matches (35BAA0B33E9EB396F59CA838C0BA5CE6DC6315A3).

Is the Public ring is somewhere else on devuan ?

Thanks.

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GlennW

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2019-07-18

Posts: 640  

Re: What is best way to install latest version of Firefox?

@SpongeBOB
I suggested my method because I found that proceedure does not work for whatever reason.

But hack away if you want.

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Marjorie

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From: Teignmouth, UK

Registered: 2019-06-09

Posts: 221  

Re: What is best way to install latest version of Firefox?

Yes, that's the way I went, but using Firefox's own .deb repository and letting apt do its job.

I used the instructions in the section titled:

Install Firefox .deb package for Debian-based distributions

I only changed from vanilla repository firefox-esr, just prior to the latest annual refresh, because it was starting to not show some graphic elements (including but not exclusively the comments section)  on the Guardian newspaper website while Firefox on android and a newish ungoogled chrome were correct.

I'm now running Firefox 129.0.2 on Daedelus/Pulseaudio/X11/Cinnamon on AMD Ryzoe 5600G  and not seeing any issues.

Last edited by Marjorie (2024-08-25 12:56:06)