Ubuntu – deb package to install Firefox ESR

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I would like to have Firefox ESR version on my system but I would like to install it via apt-get. Is there a special package to install this?

Download link would be: http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/organizations/all.html#en-US

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It has a PPA here, but it is not launched yet, so we have to install it manually:

I suppose that you have a 32bit edition on Ubuntu, and you are using English language:

Let's download it:

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/10.0.2esr/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-10.0.2esr.tar.bz2

We will extract it to /opt:

sudo tar -xvjf firefox-10.0.2.tar.bz2 -C /opt

Let's move away the normal Firefox link:

sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-old

Linking the new Firefox:

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

That's it. Enjoy!

Note: if you want to upgrade afterwards, launch it with gksudo firefox, and choose Help > About Firefox menu, and see if any updates are available. If yes, apply them.

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Ubuntu – How to install Firefox 32-bit ESR 52 without uninstalling Firefox 64-bit on 16.04

Please try this workaround. For me, the plugins like Java and VLC came back after doing this. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit with Mozilla Firefox 64 bit version 52 (not ESR) and Java JDK 1.8.0_112

Open Firefox and type about:config in address bar and press enter
Click 'I accept the risk!'
Right click anywhere and select New>Boolean
Type plugin.load_flash_only in the box that appears
Set the value to false
Clear all history and restart Firefox

I'm also using various Government websites which uses java plugin and Digital Signatures.

Try this and let me know.

Edit: Mozilla Firefox 53 will remove the flag plugin.load_flash_only so that this workaround won't work anymore.

Pale Moon web browser team announced that they will continue the support of NPAPI plugins indefinitely. To install java plugin in Pale Moon, run this in terminal

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/java/jdk1.8.0_121/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so

I've tested java plugin in Pale Moon browser. 100% working.

Ubuntu – How to install Firefox 52 ESR on 16.04

This firefox-esr PPA works for me on Xenial: https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/firefox-esr-52
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-esr

but please note that you will not get security updates as this version is obsolete.

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