Download and install Firefox 38.0 ESR (Extended Support Release). How to install Firefox 38 on 32 bit/64 bit Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04.
Firefox 38.0 features new Tab-based Preferences menus and many exciting changes and improvements:
What’s New in Firefox 38:
- New tab-based preferences.
- Ruby annotation support.
- Autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields.
- Improved page load times through speculative connection warmup.
- WebSocket suppot now available in Web Workers.
- Implemented BroadcastChannel API.
- Copy command added to console.
- WebRTC now supports multistream and renegotiation.
- Various important security fixes.
Install Firefox 38 on 64 bit Ubuntu Systems
You can either install Firefox 38 via official Ubuntu repisotiry or using Terminal commands.
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Firefix 38:
wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Install Firefox 38 on 64 bit Ubuntu Systems
wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox