Firefox 45.0.2 web browser has been released. Install Firefox 45.0.2 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Derivatives.
Firefox 45.0.2 is the latest version released. The Firefox 45.0.2 brings the following changes:
- Fix an issue impacting the cookie header when third-party cookies are blocked
- Fix a web compatibility regression impacting the srcset attribute of the image tag
- Fix a regression with the copy and paste with some old versions of some Gecko applications like Thunderbird
- Fix a crash impacting the video playback with Media Source Extension
- Fix a regression impacting some specific uploads
Install Firefox 45.0.2 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Firefox 45.0.2 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Derivatives:
Install Firefox 45.0.2 on 32 Bit Ubuntu Linux Systems
$ wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/45.0.2/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-45.0.2.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox*.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Install Firefox 45.0.2 on 64 Bit Ubuntu Linux Systems
$ wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/45.0.2/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-45.0.2.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox*.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Once installed, open Firefox from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
Uninstall Firefox
If you want to uninstall and remove Firefox, run the command:
$ sudo rm -r /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox