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Install Firefox 24 on Fedora 19/18, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4

Updated by JR on Sep 27, 2013 in CentOS, Desktop Guides, Featured, Fedora, Install Guides, Linux, Mobi Slider, Most Popular, Red Hat (RHEL) | 84 comments

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Mozilla Firefox 24 is released and this is guide, howto install Firefox 24 on Fedora 19/18/17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 using YUM. Firefox 17 ESR (Extended Support Release) is currently available on CentOS 6.4/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/5.9 own repos, so with this guide you can also install Firefox 17 ESR on CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9.

What’s new in Firefox 24

• Mixed content blocking enabled to protects users from man-in-the-middle attacks and eavesdroppers on HTTPS pages
• Implemented Close tabs to the right
• Social: Ability to tear-off chat windows to view separately by simply dragging them out
• Performance improvements on New Tab Page loads
• Improved and unified Browser console for enhanced debugging experience, replacing existing Error console
• Security fixes

What’s new in Firefox 17 (ESR)

• First revision of the Social API and support for Facebook Messenger
• Updated Awesome Bar experience with larger icons
• JavaScript Maps and Sets are now iterable
• Improvements that make the Web Console, Debugger and Developer Toolbar faster and easier to use
• New Markup panel in the Page Inspector allows easy editing of the DOM
• Sandbox attribute for iframes implemented, enabling increased security
• Over twenty performance improvements, including fixes around the New Tab page
• Security fixes

Read full details from Firefox 24 release notes and Firefox 17 release notes.

Install Mozilla Firefox 24/17 on Fedora 19/18/17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9

1. Backup your current Firefox 3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23 profiles (just in case)

tar -cvzf $HOME/mozilla-firefox-profiles-backup.tar.gz $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/

2. Change root user

su - ## OR ## sudo -i

3. Install Remi repository

Note: Currently not needed on Fedora 19/18, CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9.

Fedora 17/16/15/14

## Fedora 17 ## rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-17.rpm   ## Fedora 16 ## rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-16.rpm   ## Fedora 15 ## rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-15.rpm   ## Fedora 14 ## rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm

CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6

## Remi Dependency on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ## rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm   ## CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ## rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

4. Check Available Firefox versions

Fedora 19/18

yum list firefox

Fedora 17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4

yum --enablerepo=remi list firefox

CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9

yum list firefox

Note: Firefox 17 ESR available.

5. Update or Install Mozilla Firefox 24/17

Fedora 19/18

yum update firefox ## OR ## yum install firefox

Fedora 17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4

yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox ## OR ## yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox

CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9

yum update firefox ## OR ## yum install firefox

Note: Firefox 17 ESR available.

6. Start Firefox 24/17

Then start Firefox with using command:

firefox

Or use Firefox (24/17) launcher.

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