Firefox 4 PPA for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 users

By , Published March 22, 2011

Firefox 4's new menu buttonUbuntu 10.04 and 10.10 users wanting to upgrade to the latest release of Mozilla Firefox can do so by adding the Firefox Stable PPA to their system sources.

To do this, open up the Ubuntu Software Center, head to Edit > Software Sources and click the ‘Other Software’ tab. Press ‘Add’ and then paste ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable into the relevant field.

After adding the PPA you will be prompted to update your sources. Once done you can head to System > Administration > Update Manager to perform an upgrade

Alternatively you can do the above via the Terminal (Applications > Terminal).  Just enter the following two commands separately, entering your password when asked: -

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

You can see our full run down of what’s new and cool in Firefox 4 here.

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  • http://twitter.com/carlosleitao Carlos Sá Leitão

    Nice.
    Installing.
    =D

  • dennishojgaard

    no global menu support for maverick?

    • http://gkn.me.uk/ Greg K Nicholson

      Correct. The global menu itself (and Firefox) needed changes to make it work. Like most other Unity work, those changes haven’t been back-ported from natty.

    • http://gkn.me.uk/ Greg K Nicholson

      Correct. The global menu itself (and Firefox) needed changes to make it work. Like most other Unity work, those changes haven’t been back-ported from natty.

    • http://twitter.com/om26er Omer Akram

      it requires new libdbumenu, appmenu-gtk so the answer is no.

      • Atermoon

        Damn it, I got so excited when I saw aptitude recommend firefox-globalmenu :/

        • http://twitter.com/aneeszaki Anees Zaki

          And why you want to switch back from Chrome? :)

          • Atermoon

            It’s not that I *want* to switch. Right now I’m very happy with Chrome for many reasons, but I was a Firefox user for years and I used Opera for long time too. I have a lot of respect for these browsers and they all have things that make them unique and amazing.
            Whenever something new and cool is implemented I like to check it out for a day or two (you can’t really judge a feature in a few minutes) and see how it changes my browsing habits. If it doesn’t really cut it for me – fine, just go back to the previous one, but if it does I don’t see a reason not to switch, after all I spend most of the time on my computer browsing :-)

          • Anonymous

            If they had implemented search in the Awesomebar that would be a big reason for me to switch. I don’t like Chrome’s Omnibar, but I also don’t like how Firefox separates between the addressbar and search bar.

        • http://twitter.com/aneeszaki Anees Zaki

          And why you want to switch back from Chrome? :)

      • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

        It requires the newest libdbusmenu, but it doesn’t use appmenu-gtk at all ;)

        • http://twitter.com/om26er Omer Akram

          my mistake there ;)

    • Anonymous

      That global menu is that Firefox button right? If so, try right clicking near the tab bar and deselect “Menu Bar”. There it is, though the top panel to move the window stays.

  • http://twitter.com/spikeburch Spike Burch

    or they could just wait until FF gets updated in the repos.

    • http://twitter.com/DarthScape Kyle B

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the 10.10 or 10.04 repos would ever get Firefox 4. Natty will, but not Maverick or Lucid.

      • Bilal Akhtar

        You’re absolutely correct.

      • http://twitter.com/spikeburch Spike Burch

        you’re wrong. they changed the update policy on firefox (and chromium) a while ago

        • http://twitter.com/humphreybc Benjamin Humphrey

          No, they didn’t. Lucid and Maverick will not be getting Firefox 4 officially.

          • Anonymous

            ..and why is this?? I am seriously so confused… I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 2 years now, and I have YET to understand the messy PPA bullcrap…
            Why isn’t it like on my N900, that every app is in one place? Why do users have to hunt the internet for PPAs for this and that??
            Software updates are so critical and important..
            I don’t get it.. Seriously…

          • http://www.khattam.info _khAttAm_
          • http://www.khattam.info _khAttAm_
          • http://twitter.com/miftahgeek MiftahgeeK

            I’m not sure what is the right issue, but when I’ve add this PPA, it will be update my Firefox whatever Policy for Lucid, right?

          • http://twitter.com/miftahgeek MiftahgeeK

            I’m not sure what is the right issue, but when I’ve add this PPA, it will be update my Firefox whatever Policy for Lucid, right?

          • http://twitter.com/miftahgeek MiftahgeeK

            I’m not sure what is the right issue, but when I’ve add this PPA, it will be update my Firefox whatever Policy for Lucid, right?

          • http://just-thinkin.net kmb42vt

            Yes, actually, they did change the policy and incorporated it beginning with Lucid and for all subsequent releases. I read the thing myself. Here’s the “FirefoxNewSupportModel” announcement in the Ubuntu wiki:

            https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/FirefoxNewSupportModel

            So we should see an update for Firefox 4.0 in the Ubuntu repos (Lucid and Maverick) soon though it may be delayed a bit since development of Natty is probably keeping the devs rather busy.

    • http://aim.pp.ru/ andrey i. mavlyanov

      it won’t

  • http://twitter.com/vanysha95 Ivan

    I had russian firefox 3 and when I upgrade I get english firefox 4… So I have to wait for another update…

  • http://www.dicasbrowser.com Marco Damaceno

    All I need! Installing now.

  • http://www.about.me/dennisaltermann Dennis Altermann

    Great! Firefox 4 is awesome :)

  • http://twitter.com/jollydorb Dorb

    OMGUbuntu – you rock! Only place with updated info on this PPA.
    Thank you so much.

  • http://adnan.quaium.com Adnan Quaium

    Just installed it… I am running it right now! Just one word for firefox4 …

    S-W-E-E-T!!

  • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

    Awesome! So why isn’t ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable giving me the new thunderbird?

    • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

      lucid and maverick already have the latest version in the archive. If you’re on hardy or karmic then they are about to go EOL anyway, so you have bigger issues than not having the latest thunderbird ;)

      • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

        I’m on maverick though O_o

  • http://twitter.com/Bristow_69 Cdrik
    • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

      Yeah, I apologise for this situation. I would love to be able to provide full translations in the PPA rather than expecting users to have to go and grab the xpi’s. I can’t realistically do this though because we bundle the 3.6 translations in our language packs in the official archive (unless I provide a full set of language packs in the PPA too, but that would be a nightmare)

      • http://twitter.com/Bristow_69 Cdrik

        Chris, do you know if FF4 will be in Lucid without PPA ?

        • http://twitter.com/toxicbits toxicbits

          If you actually meant Natty, I think yes

    • http://twitter.com/rabbitwho Rebecca

      Hey clicked on es xpi, installed (following on screen instructions), restarted, nothing. Thoughts?

    • https://launchpad.net/~rafalcieslak256 rc

      How to install them?

  • Anonymous

    Looks great! Works well with the default theme.

  • http://aim.pp.ru/ andrey i. mavlyanov

    Lol. I’ve wrote similar post in my blog nearly exactly the same time! :)

  • http://aim.pp.ru/ andrey i. mavlyanov

    BTW, I recommend everybody to change default homepage from about:startpage to about:home because of the “restore all opend sites” button that have not moved into canonical’s firefox template and exist in original homepage.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HHS3YNBYUFBBEPUESRLV747QOM Dylan

    Awesome… just installed! ^_^

  • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

    Sorry, firefox-globalmenu is an empty package in maverick and lucid. It exists as a side effect of sharing the same packaging branch with natty, to save me some time ;)

    • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

      And that was in response to Atermoon ;)

      • http://profiles.google.com/saicanekuza Saica Nekuza

        Is there any hope of it ever becoming a real package?

        I don’t want to go through another complete operating system upgrade for one feature in one program…

    • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

      And that was in response to Atermoon ;)

  • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

    Sorry, firefox-globalmenu is an empty package in maverick and lucid. It exists as a side effect of sharing the same packaging branch with natty, to save me some time ;)

  • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

    Sorry, firefox-globalmenu is an empty package in maverick and lucid. It exists as a side effect of sharing the same packaging branch with natty, to save me some time ;)

  • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

    That’s not quite right. While you’re probably right that 10.04 and 10.10 won’t get Firefox 4, they *will* get a future version once support for 3.6 ends

    • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

      D’oh, that was in response to andrey i. mavlyanov

    • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

      D’oh, that was in response to andrey i. mavlyanov

    • http://profiles.google.com/davidkmuir David Muir

      Except that support for 3.5 hasn’t officially ended, but they still upgraded to 3.6. That said, it was scheduled to end last August… Hopefully they “schedule” the end of 3.6 soon :-)

  • https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Chris Coulson

    That’s not quite right. While you’re probably right that 10.04 and 10.10 won’t get Firefox 4, they *will* get a future version once support for 3.6 ends

  • http://gudulin.ru Alexandr

    I can’t believe! In the new ff downloading the google chrome browser will faster :) Nice.

  • http://gudulin.ru Alexandr

    I can’t believe! In the new ff downloading the google chrome browser will faster :) Nice.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DWSOTHNJWUCFFCL5XJPX6CNABQ Renan

    I’ve been using Firefox 4 since the beta state, and I must say I hate it. It freezes all the time, and frequently lags the computer… I’m now using Chrome, but I don’t like this one very much too..

    • The Negative Shape

      opera?

    • http://aim.pp.ru/ andrey i. mavlyanov

      i had the similar opinion untill I try the _release_ of firefox 4.0 with (and this is the MOST important thin – fresh profile). I can’t say it’s faster than chromium, but they can compete “nose to nose”.

    • http://aim.pp.ru/ andrey i. mavlyanov

      i had the similar opinion untill I try the _release_ of firefox 4.0 with (and this is the MOST important thin – fresh profile). I can’t say it’s faster than chromium, but they can compete “nose to nose”.

  • http://twitter.com/TMInspections Tom Mackelburg

    Where’s the Firefox Button?

    • http://b.wardje.eu/ Ward Muylaert

      Hide the menubar and it will show.

      • http://twitter.com/NightwishSveiss Nightwish Sveiss

        Ty! i was wondering were the hell was the option for that and the new bookmark button!

      • http://twitter.com/NightwishSveiss Nightwish Sveiss

        Ty! i was wondering were the hell was the option for that and the new bookmark button!

      • http://twitter.com/NightwishSveiss Nightwish Sveiss

        Ty! i was wondering were the hell was the option for that and the new bookmark button!

    • http://b.wardje.eu/ Ward Muylaert

      Hide the menubar and it will show.

  • http://twitter.com/Permisito Pedro Torres

    OMG Firefox!

  • http://kreuger.myopenid.com/ Kreuger

    Apt get update and apt get update? lol

  • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

    So my firefox 4 installed on kubuntu maverick with the language english gb and it isn’t compatible. Shouldn’t I have english us? and how do i fix this? Some webpages (incl google!) don’t show english text.

  • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

    So my firefox 4 installed on kubuntu maverick with the language english gb and it isn’t compatible. Shouldn’t I have english us? and how do i fix this? Some webpages (incl google!) don’t show english text.

  • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

    So my firefox 4 installed on kubuntu maverick with the language english gb and it isn’t compatible. Shouldn’t I have english us? and how do i fix this? Some webpages (incl google!) don’t show english text.

  • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

    So my firefox 4 installed on kubuntu maverick with the language english gb and it isn’t compatible. Shouldn’t I have english us? and how do i fix this? Some webpages (incl google!) don’t show english text.

  • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

    So my firefox 4 installed on kubuntu maverick with the language english gb and it isn’t compatible. Shouldn’t I have english us? and how do i fix this? Some webpages (incl google!) don’t show english text.

  • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

    So my firefox 4 installed on kubuntu maverick with the language english gb and it isn’t compatible. Shouldn’t I have english us? and how do i fix this? Some webpages (incl google!) don’t show english text.

  • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

    So my firefox 4 installed on kubuntu maverick with the language english gb and it isn’t compatible. Shouldn’t I have english us? and how do i fix this? Some webpages (incl google!) don’t show english text.

  • Richard Fannin

    Awesome. Is there an extension to push history to zeitgeist?

  • Anonymous

    It looks pretty good, but the QSQ theme (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/qsq/) makes it look better: the firefox menu shrinks, color scheme is pretty good, etc.

  • Anonymous

    It looks pretty good, but the QSQ theme (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/qsq/) makes it look better: the firefox menu shrinks, color scheme is pretty good, etc.

  • Anubeon

    Is it just me or is the x86-64 version of Firefox 4.0 in this PPA sans plug-ins? I’ve had the development versions (installed via the official development PPA) installed since beta 7 with no problems (and indeed RC1 is working right now without issue), but this stable version isn’t recognising any plug-ins (in particular flash; I have adobe flash x86-64 installed via seven-machines PPA).

    • Anonymous

      Make sure the plugin is in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder. I had some difficulties with it for the same reason. It didn’t want to use it from any other folder, couldn’t say why.

      • Anubeon

        Thanks for the advice. I’ll check into it, although I’m almost certain that the various .so files were already located there (I’ve had reason to check before).

        As it happens I reinstalled both adobe flash and moonlight plug-ins via synaptic package manager, and that appears to have done the trick. Unfortunately the same approach doesn’t appear to have worked for the IcedTea JVM, VLC and LibreOffice plug-ins. I think I’ll adopt a wait and see attitude though, as there absence hasn’t caused any woes as of yet. :-)

  • https://profiles.google.com/paolo.valleri/about paolo

    Sorry for the simple question; How I can add the small gmail tab?

    • Anonymous

      go to gmail.com in a normal tab, then right-click the tab and choose “pin as app tab”

  • Anonymous

    I’m back! With a new browser so that I can load the forever slow disquss ever faster…

  • Anonymous

    I like it. I might switch back from Chrome. My only beef with it so far is that the menu button only shows up when I have multiple tabs open. Then again, all that pointless space is removed when there’s only one tab. MIXED…. FEELINGS!….. GAH!

  • http://profiles.google.com/xan.zappa Lionel Rivière

    I’ve added the ppa and update/upgrade, but my firefox version is still 4.0b13 pre – is it normal?

    Thanks! :)

  • http://profiles.google.com/xan.zappa Lionel Rivière

    I’ve added the ppa and update/upgrade, but my firefox version is still 4.0b13 pre – is it normal?

    Thanks! :)

  • Anonymous

    Wow, that really screwed up flash. Couldn’t play any flash videos, both chrome and firefox said I needed to update flash player even though I have the latest version. Had to ppa-purge the firefox repository to get it working again. I guess no firefox 4 for me for the moment.

  • Anonymous

    I tried FF4. It’s fairly cool, but I still don’t like the fact that I can’t have a private browsing window and a non-private browsing window open at once. I know Opera trumphs this by allowing private and non-private browsing tabs in the same window, but I’ll content myself with Chromium and browse in two windows.

  • Anonymous

    I tried FF4. It’s fairly cool, but I still don’t like the fact that I can’t have a private browsing window and a non-private browsing window open at once. I know Opera trumphs this by allowing private and non-private browsing tabs in the same window, but I’ll content myself with Chromium and browse in two windows.

  • Anonymous

    I have one small grouse with FF4. It has this huge menu (what happened to a unified Menu button?) and my old addon Tiny Menu no longer works. In addition, my Read It Later icon looks weird.

  • Anonymous

    I have one small grouse with FF4. It has this huge menu (what happened to a unified Menu button?) and my old addon Tiny Menu no longer works. In addition, my Read It Later icon looks weird.

  • http://meadiciona.com/toal193 Tiago

    I’ve noticed that adding this repository will update firefox, but not xulrunner. Wouldn’t be there any issue because of that?

  • https://profiles.google.com/106402754662061913828/about Sergiotca

    At the risk of sounding like a total n00b… will ff4 ever be loaded on the regualr maverik repositories or do I have to add this PPA manually in order to ever have it on this distro… I’m not in a hurry of getting this update as long as it eventually arrives.

  • Anonymous

    Quite frankly, I don’t see what’s wrong with going into synaptic and right clicking the mark next to it and hitting ‘upgrade’. No ppa’s, no extra package installations, no fuss.

  • http://twitter.com/stevehartke Steve Hartke

    I have to say I think this battle was over about two years ago.

    Firefox has fallen behind and Chrome’s lead widens with every release. Much love and nothing but respect to the team– they have worked tirelessly with a fraction of the budget, and I think it was wrong for Google to undercut them the way they did, they should have donated money instead of releasing their own browser.

    But I am a Google man.

  • http://mandriver.blogspot.com/ Dmitry

    Firefox in ppa is available only in English, but it’s easy to fix.
    To get the localization pack, install it (as extension) from here:
    http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-i686/xpi/
    for 32-bit or
    http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-x86_64/xpi/
    for 64-bit systems.

  • Anonymous

    Fresh install of natty + ff4 = Buttery smooth. I haven’t had a “I didn’t know my computer run so nicely” moment in a few years.

  • http://hicksrobin42.myopenid.com/ Robin

    When I tried to install from the PPA by doing an “upgrade” I had all kinds of problems, but when I did it as a “clean install” with no 3.15 on the system, it worked much smoother!

  • http://tallman9.livejournal.com/ tallman

    There is no prebuild package of xulrunner-2.0 that comes with Firefox 4 in this ppa.
    I submited a bug report for that.
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-ppa-bugs/+bug/743601

  • http://profiles.google.com/viruses99 cypho lee

    Firefox 4 is nca on my 10.10, just installed it on my system and it’s awesome.

  • http://openid.aol.com/neilhuang Neil Huang

    I tried doing this firefox 4 PPA on my 10.04 LTS 64 bit machine. I have to say it’s pretty buggy. I’m also running the latest Linux version of flash and it’s quite buggy and slow as well. The firefox button on the top left corner does not play nice with the “Personal Menu” add on that previously worked so well. Various add-ons were causing problems. I’m kind of stuck sticking to FF because of my pw manager and FF sync across platforms and computers. I’ve removed the PPA and then removed the FF in synaptic, re-synced the repos w/o the PPA and re-installed FF 3.6. I may be wrong but it feels a lot snappier and flash plays happier with it.

  • Eric S

    I did this, and scripted pulling in flash and java so I am always up to date in Ubuntu. Beautiful. Only complaint is your method does not add a line to my sources.list … yet it installed. Makes it hard to backup my apt stuff. Guess I do the whole /etc/apt folder and hope it is in there somewhere lol.

  • Eric S

    Horrible and confusing way to do it because
    1. then it does not show up in sources.list and 
    2. It does not verify packages this way.

    Why not go to the ppa site and do it the way THEY suggest? Since they made it, it secures the updates and adds it to your sources.list for easy backup.

  • Decebal Dobrica

    10x

 
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