Among its main features are the option of being able to browse several websites at the same time thanks to its tab system, all while supporting most existing web standards as well as offering a personalized experience thanks to its extensions, add-ons, and themes that have been created by the community and which allow you to expand its functions. With portable install, i cannot invoke firefox using super key (windows)+ start typing "fire".Mozilla continues working on more improvements for its star product: the free and open source browser, Firefox. Installation steps for v76 described below
rpm file either.įrom version 76 onwards, firefox official way to install is to do a portable install and then create soft link for /usr/bin/firefox. To make things worse, firefox does not have its own yum repo now. If I used Oracle Linux 7 stream (latest being 7.7), would I have been able to install firefox 76 because the repo for OL 7.X stream might be well maintained with newer packages ? Given that Oracle Linux is an enterprise linux, updating firefox browser regularly may not be a critical requirement.īut, isn't there a process in place within Oracle's Linux team which adds newer versions of packages to the repo ? It has been more than a month now. ~]$ sudo dnf install firefoxLast metadata expiration check: 0:23:01 ago on Tue 05:31:49 AM +08.Dependencies resolved.= Package Architecture Version Repository Size=Installing: firefox x86_64 68.9.0-1.0.1.el8_2 ol8_appstream 94 MTransaction Summary=Install 1 PackageTotal download size: 94 MInstalled size: 230 MIs this ok : But, the latest firefox available in Oracle Linux's ol8_appstream repo is only version 68.9
Firefox has released version 76 more than 1 month back (May 5th).
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