I would like test the Aurora channel on Ubuntu 11.10. How can I do this?
2 Answers
Add the PPA for it:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora
Then, sudo apt-get update
and install firefox
currently is at version 10. As they upload a new release of Firefox you will get an update.
Remember, adding the Firefox Aurora Channel PPA will replace your current stable Firefox! This version of Firefox is not stable so you may find bugs! Use it at your own risk.
A ppa is great, and used by most users. But if you want an alternate you simply download from Mozilla
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora/
You save the tar.bz in your home directory.
You extract it with tar xjvf firefox-version
At the time of this post it is
tar xjvf firefox-10.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Use tab completion (type firefox tab tab) ...
You then run it with
~/firefox/firefox-bin
The biggest potential advantages of this method is that it will install per user only, not system wide. On a multi-user system that might have an advantage.
You can 'install' it system wide easily enough
sudo cp -R ~your_user/firefox /usr/local
You then run it with
/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin
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1Another advantage is that you can get daily updates which are differential (and mostly under 1MB) by clicking on Help, About. If you don't do an update daily, the next time you check for updates, you may get a full ~ 17 MB download. That's why I update daily. I think, but I'm not sure, that going the ppa route will result in full updates each time. You can also have a short cut and you can also ensure that .htm and .html files open with Aurora instead of the default Firefox stable version.– user25656Dec 14, 2011 at 5:14
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I marked your answer as accepted because I want to test the latest releases fast and because of the advantages you and vasa1 pointed out. Thanks, your help is greatly appreciated. Dec 14, 2011 at 14:26
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