How to Install Latest Firefox on Debian Jessie 8 Amd64 Xfce Easy Visual-Guide

January 16, 2013 | By Regaz.

Install the Latest Firefox Debian Jessie 8 Xfce

The Guide shows you Step-by-Step How to Install the Latest Firefox x8664 Browser for Debian 8 Jessie 64-bit Xfce Desktop.

And the Latest Firefox coexist without troubles with others possible Versions, this meaning that it’s sharing the Default Environment.

So to make easier the Visualization of the whole process the Guide includes the essential Screenshots.

Inside the How to Install the Latest Firefox Debian Jessie 8 Xfce Instructions you will Find also a Link to How to Create a Launcher for Firefox Browser on Debian Linux Xfce Desktop.

Step-by-step Install Latest Firefox in Debian Buster 10 GNU/Linux

  1. Download Latest Firefox Stable for Linux:

    Firefox x8664 tar.bz2

  • Double-Click on Archive to Extract
    Install the Latest Firefox Debian Jessie 8 - Xfce Extraction

    Naming as firefox because Xfce Extractor Automatically Send the Output Into a Folder.

    Install the Latest Firefox Debian Jessie 8 Xfce - Naming

  • Open a Terminal Window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Install the Latest Firefox Debian Jessie 8 Xfce Open Terminal

  • Relocate Latest Firefox

    Login as SuperUser.

    su 

    If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

    Make a Firefox Directory.

    mkdir /opt/firefox

    Move Firefox Into firefox-Latest so to Prepare for a Possible Firefox Multi-Version Coexistence 

    sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/firefox && mv /tmp/firefox/firefox /opt/firefox/firefox-latest

    Make a Firefox-Latest Symlink for Easy-Starting.

    ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox-latest/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox-latest

    Next you Can Start Firefox from Terminal with 

    firefox-latest

  • Create a Xfce Launcher for Easy-Starting:

    How Launcher for Debian-Xfce

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