Ubuntu 上安装 Firefox 4 的方法

Now, for most users, getting Firefox is as easy as going to http://getfirefox.com and clicking the big green download button. Or by clicking on Help -> Check for Updates at the very top right of your Firefox window. Unfortunately, for Linux-based operating systems, Mozilla only provides a tarball package of their new release. This works perfectly fine once extracted somewhere on your computer and running the “firefox” binary. But it isn’t a very clean or trackable install. Fortunately, there is a Mozilla Team at Ubuntu for all of it’s users who have taken the time to package up Firefox 4.0 into a PPA you can add to your Software Center which will allow you to upgrade to the latest version just like any other normal update. I have found easy instructions from a recent post on the Ubuntu Planet here. Thank you Adnan Quaium.

1. Go to Appli­ca­tions > Ubuntu Soft­ware Cen­ter from the top panel.
2. Head to Edit > Soft­ware Sources and click the ‘Other Soft­ware’ tab.
3. Press ‘Add’ but­ton and then paste the fol­low­ing line into the rel­e­vant field to add thePPA.
ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
4. After adding the PPA you will be prompted to update your sources.
5. Once the update is done you can head to Sys­tem > Admin­is­tra­tion > Update Man­ager to per­form an upgrade.
6. Thus FF4 will be installed in the system.

 

有一个动态显示 Firefox 4 下载量的网页

 

http://glow.mozilla.org/

 

每分钟对下载量做一次分析及展示，使用的是SQLStream 做的实时数据统计。有空可以了解一下。

 

http://www.sqlstream.com/