Firefox
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Description
Firefox is a popular multi-platform web browser developed by the Mozilla Community and backed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox delivers a safe and easy web browsing, familiar user interface, enhanced security features including protection from online identity theft, and integrated search that lets you get the most out of the web.
Firefox is installed by default in openSUSE.
Firefox is completely customizable. A large variety of add-ons exists that lets you theme or add extra functionality to Firefox.
Latest Version
The Mozilla Project on the Build Service provides you the latest version of Firefox. This project offers relatively stable and tested, albeit unofficial, packages from Mozilla.
The repository can be found here: Mozilla Repository
You can use one of these One Click Install to install the latest version of Firefox. Alternatively, you can use the commands below:
openSUSE 11.2
1-Click Install
Install using zypper
zypper addrepo --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2/ mozilla
zypper refresh
zypper install mozilla:MozillaFirefox
openSUSE 11.1
1-Click Install
Install using zypper
zypper addrepo --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.1/ mozilla
zypper refresh
zypper install mozilla:MozillaFirefox
openSUSE 11.0
1-Click Install
Install using zypper
zypper addrepo --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0/ mozilla
zypper refresh
zypper install mozilla:MozillaFirefox
Factory
1-Click Install
Install using zypper
zypper addrepo --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/SUSE_Factory/ mozilla
zypper refresh
zypper install mozilla:MozillaFirefox
FAQs
Tips and Tricks
Speedup
- Clean Firefox Database This works only from Firefox 3.0 on.
- Disable IPv6
- Enable HTTP Pipelining
Miscellaneous
See also
External links
The Mozilla web site is home for Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, SeaMonkey and more.



