Firefox 5 Released (Ubuntu Installation Instructions)

Posted by Chris7mas on Jun 21, 2011 9:33 PM EDT
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After changing its stable release policy to a more accelerated pace, Mozilla released Firefox 5 pretty quick after the latest major Firefox version was put out. Firefox 4 was released on March 22, 2011 and this version follows only three months later. Here’s an announcement on the Mozilla Blog website.

After changing its stable release policy to a more accelerated pace, Mozilla released Firefox 5 pretty quick after the latest major Firefox version was put out. Firefox 4 was released on March 22, 2011 and this version follows only three months later. Here’s an announcement on the Mozilla Blog website.

According to the official announcement, Firefox 5 includes:

more than 1000 improvements and performance enhancements adds support for more modern web technologies now supports CSS animation standards Do Not Track privacy feature now available on Android too the new Add-on SDK allows local development of add-ons

To install it immediately in Ubuntu rather than waiting for the PPAs to update, you can follow this tutorial I wrote a few days ago. It shows how to install Firefox manually and Flash too.

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