Firefox 7 They are already available and the main novelty that these versions bring us is a better performance in memory consumption.
The announcement has not been made official yet, but since Mozilla FTP can now be downloaded for their respective versions of GNU / Linux, Windows y Mac. Although Linux performance has improved, I don't think it's anything to write home about, there's still a long way to go Firefox to win in the battle of the browsers and that is one of the main problems.
Installation in LMDE.
With the new version it is possible that many extensions stop working, but if we want to install it in LMDE, we just have to open a terminal and do the following:
$ cd ~/ && wget -c ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/7.0/linux-i686/es-ES/firefox-7.0.tar.bz2
Once the file is downloaded (in our / Home) we unzip it and it will create a folder called firefox. We return to the console to save the previous version and replace it:
$ sudo mv /opt/firefox /opt/firefox.old
$ sudo cp -Rv ~/firefox /opt/
We restart or start Firefox and we can use it in LMDE.
It will be necessary to update to test it
Is there a difference in consumption?
Honestly, there is a difference, but as I said, not to get excited about.
The interesting thing about this new version of the popular Mozilla browser is that it is much faster than the previous version (Firefox 6.0).
In addition, some details were corrected in the Beta versions that mean that we can now enjoy a browser that, although increasingly similar to Chrome, delivers the security and performance that every user wants when browsing through any web page .
The resemblance is true. I have constantly seen how browsers are taking things from others. I think it will come to a point where everyone is the same 😀
Uhm I do not see similar to Chrome / Chromium, or I am blind or since I do not install Chromium they have put it as Firefox.
Let's see. They are details but Chrome / Chromium implemented them first:
- Domain highlighting.
- Exclusion from http.
- Unified menu.
I may have another one ...
Wow, those things that I hadn't even noticed are so stupid, (not for telling you stupid or your comment) let's talk about the minutiae and even though it seems stupid too, I love it in Paste & Go, which I think is since v 6.
Before I had to hit and hit the whole thing.
Jo by the way what a difference, to have firefox 7 in Archlinux
if you had the previous version
sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -su
if you didn't have it, then with «sudo pacman -S firefox»
Of the things they make it my favorite distro.
Why aren't several of the advice given here helpful?
And I wonder why, sometimes, those who know more about Linux describe steps to do something but others only mention them because they think they are too easy ... and then those of us who don't know so much get lost and nothing works for us.
Elav, I'm sorry but what you say here didn't help me. I can't put the extracted "firefox" folder in / home.
Hello again. I answer to myself.
I couldn't copy anything to the / home directory, I don't know how to do it. Whenever something needs to be copied to a protected directory, I have no idea how to make my changes as "root" effective.
HOWEVER, in the process of upgrading to Firefox 7, I have to say that ultimately it did.
In conclusion, thank you very much Elav for your article. I was a bit complicated, but it did. For my part, I invite you to try not to omit the explanation of certain steps, no matter how easy you find them; These steps can be complicated for those of us who do not have much experience.
You're right that sometimes we miss things. This happens because we do not realize that new users do not master certain basic things in GNU / Linux. But I'll explain in passing for you, and for everyone who reads this article. What I skipped was the following:
In the console when we are in any directory and we execute the command:
$ cdThis automatically takes us to our / Home, Or to / Home of the user with which we execute the command. So, in the article I put this command:
$ cd ~ / && wget -c ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/7.0/linux-i686/es-ES/firefox-7.0.tar.bz
What does he do? First run the command cd with our user and once he fulfilled the order, we tell him with && run the download with wget. Download that of course will be saved in our / Home.
I will do an article on these basic commands .. 😀
Well, let them learn instead of making unpleasant comments
Hello, Courage. I'm breaking out laughing at your answer. But, well, don't be so drastic either.
My comment was unfriendly but to myself. I would like to know and learn much more, but right now, my projects steal all the attention. I just wanted to express my frustration when things don't go well for me, and yet I always appreciate the help of people like Elav and you who are there to share.
And I'll keep coming to this and other blogs: keep learning!
Don't pay too much attention to Courage, there are days when he wakes up thinking about Ubuntu and well, that blows his head hahaha
Clarify that when you put for example:
$ cd, this does not mean that you should put $ actually, you just have to put cd