As you may know, Mozilla Firefox is among the most popular internet browsers available, being very appreciated by FOSS users.
Firefox 38.0.5 has been released, being available for all the major platforms. The latest version of Firefox brings full Pocket integration, permitting the users to save web pages and read them later, an improved Reader View tool, which offers clean formatting of blog posts and articles and a feature permitting the users to share the active window in the Firefox Hello conversations.
Also, the painting when switching tabs issue has been fixed.
Installation instructions:
Mozilla does not provide a repository for its Firefox browser, but the installation steps are quite easy anyway and should not create difficulties on any Linux distribution.
The latest versions of Firefox are available as pre-compiled libraries via the Mozilla FTP, so we need to download the archive (i386 or i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64 or x86_64 for 64 bit systems), extract it and run the firefox file. Also, it is advised to remove previous versions of Firefox, move Firefox to /opt and create a symlink, for an easier usage.
The below instructions should work on all the popular Linux systems, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.
How to install Firefox 38.0.5 on 32 bit Linux systems:
$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-38.0.5.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox-38.0.5.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
To start Firefox, just open a terminal, type firefox and hit enter.
How to install Firefox 38.0.5 on 64 bit Linux systems:
$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0.5/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-38.0.5.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox-38.0.5.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
To start Firefox, just open a terminal, type firefox and hit enter.