最新 Firefox へ切り替える方法

Check your F.F. whether or not latest release.

• https://support.mozilla.org/ja/kb/install-firefox-linux
• https://www.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/new/
• Adobe flash player does not work on Firefox ESR version.
• Should be installed the tar-ball version instead of the ESR, if you want to play flash movie.

Extract files and deploy.

WKDIR=/tmp
# Finds latest version string and stores into the shell variable.
wget -qO - "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=ja" | tar jxf - -C $WKDIR
[ -e /opt/firefox/ ] && sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox
sudo mv $WKDIR/firefox /opt/
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/firefox
sudo find $WKDIR -name "firefox-*.tar.bz2" -exec rm {} \;

Should be done at once following them if you installed OS newly.

• Remove package of the old version.

  sudo yum -y remove firefox
  

• Allocate a new symbolic link for the new firefox.

  [ -L /usr/bin/firefox ] || sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
  

• New icon is here:

  /opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
  

Create a desktop menu item

• Create a launcher configuration file.

  sudo vim /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
  

• Put the following entries.

  [Desktop Entry]
  Encoding=UTF-8
  Name=Firefox
  Comment=Firefox
  Exec=/usr/bin/firefox
  Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
  Categories=Application;Network;WebBrowser
  Version=4.2
  Type=Application
  Terminal=0
  

• You can refer to a article “Desktop Menu Specification”.

Trouble shooting

sudo yum -y install PackageKit-gtk3-module