How to install Firefox 36.0.1 on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Upgrade to Firefox 36.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.10/14.04, if you have Firefox already installed on Ubuntu Systems. Firefox 36+ brings support for HTTP/2 and HTML5 YouTube playback.
Let us see how to install Firefox 36.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.10/14.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1/17/13, Elementary OS 0.3 “Freya”/OS 0.2 “Luna” and other Ubuntu Derivatives.
Firefox 36.0.1 can be installed via the official repository or you can download Firefox 36.0.1 from the Mozilla website, extract and then install. Follow the steps given below to install Firefox 36.0.1 on Ubuntu Systems:
Install Firefox 36.0.1 on 32 bit Ubuntu Systems
Please note that installing Firefox 36.0.1 will replace the previous version of Firefox you have already installed on your system.
wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/36.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-36.0.1.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf firefox-36.0.1.tar.bz2
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox36.0.1
sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox36.0.1/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Install Firefox 36.0.1 on 64 bit Ubuntu Systems
wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/36.0.1/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-36.0.1.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf firefox-36.0.1.tar.bz2
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox36.0.1
sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox36.0.1/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Once installed, you can either open Firefox from Dash or Terminal. Type firefox in Terminal and hit enter to start Firefox 36.0.1.