Installing Firefox 4 on Debian 6 (Squeeze), Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10

Firefox 4 is a very important release from Mozilla guys. This version include improvements in performance, standards support, and the user interface.

The simple way to install Firefox 4 on Ubuntu is:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo aptitude update && sudo apt-get upgrade

On Debian:

wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-4.0.tar.bz2
sudo tar -xvjf firefox-4.0.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local
sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox4

The steps to add firefox4 to the gnome panel are: Right button over panel -> Add to Panel… -> Custom Application Luncher -> Add -> Fill fields -> Choose an Icon (path to firefox4′s icons /usr/local/firefox/icons/).

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