Hi,
today I want to tell you how the latest Firefox beta (currently: Firefox 4.0 Beta 6) is installed, tested and can define any time as a standard.
To do this, just follow only the following steps:
- you Invite here the Firefox addon Foxter of lovinglinux (the download link is right below). After you've installed the addon, Firefox restarts
- clicks After restarting Firefox, it within the browser once the right to open the context menu.
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- Then the window Foxter Preferences
Uploaded with ImageShack.us - opens where changes their entry "Watched Folder" on a test folder, then find your FireFox files that are loaded in a later step, are stored. It makes sense to a folder in your home
- Next, let us invite the Firefox beta and check the MD5 sum.
- We click again right in your browser, select Foxter -> Browse FTP Directory and hand over hand through the directory structure to the desired version of Firefox (in order to shorten the current beta: x86 ftp://ftp.mozilla .org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b6/linux-i686/de / , 64-bit: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0 b6/linux-x86_64/de / )
- the tar.bz2 file contained there, we save in the folder that we described above as Watched Folder have. complete - (With a right click> save target as ..)
- After the download is it the start neu.Nun Firefox, we check the MD5 sum, to be sure that we have downloaded the file correctly.
- Simply open this file and looking out the MD5 sum of the download. (On the right is the exact file name and folder, left the MD5 sum)
- We copy the MD5 sum, and then right again -> Foxter -> Check File and then select our newly downloaded file. Quick checks whether the file is okay (MD5 matched) or not containing.
- Is everything all right, we can now this file using our popular right click -> Foxter -> Install and our downloaded file. Now is also already installed the beta:) does not get any faster.
- Now we can start the version in which we right click -> select Foxter and start the menu item Launch . opens early in a new window with the new Firefox (showing up on the title bar: "Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 6)
- one wants now this beta use with its current profile, you can generate them naturally set as the default given by the right. Click -> Foxter -. / Default select and choose where your version, it is a security question, whether Will you have the Firefox and really after him
/ opt
want to install. This just confirms it, and then open a console window. This window not close, but if a request to enter the sudo password is, enter it. It then installed the beta for Firefox/ opt
and then starts when Firefox 4.0 beta 6 again. - Should you at some point no longer wish to use the beta, so you can return to the original Ubuntu Changeover contacts, in which her (you guessed it) right click -> Foxter -> Revert to Original chooses.
After this tutorial you should now run on Firefox 4.0 beta 6 have.
If you are missing something in the explanation, it writes in the comments.