{"id":586,"date":"2018-10-17T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=586"},"modified":"2018-10-18T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:12:05","slug":"how-to-install-firefox-quantum-and-speed-up-your-web-browsing-the-ultimate-linux-newbie-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/how-to-install-firefox-quantum-and-speed-up-your-web-browsing-the-ultimate-linux-newbie-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install Firefox Quantum and speed up your web browsing \u2014 The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Firefox<\/a><\/p>\n

This week, the web\u2019s been ablaze, on fire even (pardon the pun) with the release of Firefox Quantum<\/a>. Apparently it\u2019s 2x faster and uses 30% less memory than Chrome. In today\u2019s just the examples, here\u2019s how to install it on your Linux box to get the latest fast goodness from Mozilla. It might even make die hard Chrome browser fans make a move!<\/p>\n

Install Quantum in Ubuntu 17.10<\/h2>\n

The latest Ubuntu distribution (17.10) has been updated to include the latest version of Firefox in their main repositories. Once you update as below, Quantum is Firefox version 57 or greater:
\nsudo apt update
\napt upgrade
\nfirefox –version<\/p>\n

How to install Firefox on other Linux distributions that don\u2019t have v57 in their repositories<\/h2>\n

cd
\nwget -L -O firefox.tar.bz2 ‘https:\/\/download.mozilla.org\/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US’
\ntar xf firefox.tar.bz2
\ncd firefox
\n.\/firefox &<\/p>\n

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This week, the web\u2019s been ablaze, on fire even (pardon the pun) with the release of Firefox Quantum. Apparently it\u2019s 2x faster and uses 30% less memory than Chrome. In today\u2019s just the examples, here\u2019s how to install it on your Linux box to get the latest fast goodness from Mozilla. It might even make … <\/p>\n

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