Installing Firefox

[pwabrahams]

I've just created a new installation of Precise Kubuntu. One of the actions on the initial application menu is to install Firefox. I did that, but it didn't seem to have an effect; the installation seemed to succeed uneventfully, but when I was done I still had only the installer, not Firefox itself. What am I missing?

[NickStone]

I cannot help you with the "install Firefox" link in the menu, but you can install Firefox through Muon Package Manager or the Terminal. The Terminal command is:

sudo apt-get install firefox

[pwabrahams]

Firefox versions

Is the Firefox you get from mozilla.org the same as the one gotten from the repositories? If not, which is preferable?

I've read somewhere that mozilla.org is dropping Ubuntu support. Do you know anything about that?

[NickStone]

Is the Firefox you get from mozilla.org the same as the one gotten from the repositories? If not, which is preferable?

I've read somewhere that mozilla.org is dropping Ubuntu support. Do you know anything about that?

I don't believe the version from Mozilla themselves is the exact same as the one found in the repositories but I think there are a few minor changes. I would always install from the repositories first but if I wanted software that was available in the repositories then download either from the main developers own website or from sourceforge.net website. Sourceforge is a great website to go for all open source software but in most cases you will need to compile the code and in stall it yourself.

[claydoh]

It is the same code as Mozilla Firefox, they have just tweaked the theme and other things via the ubufox extension. There may be more, Not sure about unity integration

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[pwabrahams]

What happened.

It turns out that when I tried to use the installer, I didn't have a network connection even though I thought I did. Once I had the connection, the installer did its thing correctly. I suppose the installer should complain explicitly if there's no network connection instead of silently quitting.

[SteveRiley]

The Firefox package depends on a Unity global menu plugin that serves no purpose in KDE. Avoid that by altering the install command thusly:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends firefox

You can install a slightly different binary, one compiled with better KDE integration, from a software archive maintained by Blue Shell, the organization that sponsors Kubuntu's development:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blue-shell/firefox-kde
echo -e 'Package: *\nPin: release o=LP-PPA-blue-shell-firefox-kde\nPin-Priority: 1000' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/blue-shell-firefox > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends firefox firefox-kde-support

Note: the second line above begins with echo and ends with /dev/null. It might wrap for display purposes. It's best if you copy-paste each line into a Konsole window.

[NickStone]

It turns out that when I tried to use the installer, I didn't have a network connection even though I thought I did. Once I had the connection, the installer did its thing correctly. I suppose the installer should complain explicitly if there's no network connection instead of silently quitting.

Put it down to experience. Every computer "expert" has done something stupid when working with computers. You arn't the first and you won't be the last.