Mozilla Firefox 15 is released and this is guide, howto install Firefox 15 on Fedora 17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 using YUM. Firefox 10 is currently available on CentOS 6.3/5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/5.8 own repos, so with this guide you can also install Firefox 10 on CentOS 5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.8.
What’s new in Firefox 15
- Silent, background updates
- Support for SPDY networking protocol v3
- WebGL enhancements, including compressed textures for better performance
- Optimized memory usage for add-ons
- Native support for the Opus audio codec added
What’s new in Firefox 10
- Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default
- The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back
- Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented
- CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported
- New bdi element for bi-directional text isolation, along with supporting CSS properties
- Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen
- Added IndexedDB APIs to more closely match the specification
- Inspect tool with content highlighting, includes new CSS Style Inspector
Read full details from
Firefox 15 release notes and
Firefox 10 release notes.
Install Mozilla Firefox 15/10 on Fedora 17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8
1. Backup your current Firefox 3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14 profiles (just in case)
tar -cvzf $HOME/mozilla-firefox-profiles-backup.tar.gz $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/
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2. Change root user
3. Install Remi repository
Note: Currently not needed on Fedora 17, Fedora 16, CentOS 5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.8.
Fedora 15/14
## Remi Dependency on Fedora 15 ##
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
## Fedora 15 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-15.rpm
## Fedora 14 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm
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CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6
## Remi Dependency on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
## CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
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4. Check Available Firefox versions
Fedora 17/16
Fedora 15/14, CentOS 6.3 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3
yum --enablerepo=remi list firefox
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CentOS 5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.8
Note: Firefox 10 available.
5. Update or Install Mozilla Firefox 15/10
Fedora 17/16
yum update firefox
## OR ##
yum install firefox
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Fedora 15/14, CentOS 6.3 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3
yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox
## OR ##
yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox
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CentOS 5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.8
yum update firefox
## OR ##
yum install firefox
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Note: Firefox 10 available.
6. Start Firefox 15/10
Then start Firefox with using command:
Or use Firefox (15/10) launcher.
