Mozilla Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux has exited the beta cycle and is now available as a release candidate in more than 70 languages. The millions of users testing Firefox 4 will be automatically updated to this version and will join our Mozilla QA team in validating the new features, enhanced performance and stability and HTML5 capabilities in Firefox 4.
Firefox 4 for Linux has some great new features that include a newer and faster JägerMonkey JavaScript engine, HTML 5 support, new interface with better support for GTK themes, tab management through panorama, app tabs, WebGL support (only on some supported hardware for Linux), new Jetpack framework for add-ons, new add-on management interface, tabs on top, a single unified menu, new add-on bar, crash protection for flash, quicktime and silverlight plugins etc and of course huge performance and speed improvements over Firefox 3.x series.
For Ubuntu
You can also download from Mozilla daily PPA
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firefox-4.0
For Fedora
Remi Dependency on Fedora 14
$ rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm
$ rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm
Remi Dependency on Fedora 13 and Fedora 12
$ rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
$ rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
Fedora 14
$ rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm
Fedora 13
$ rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-13.rpm
Fedora 12
$ rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-12.rpm
Check Available Firefox 4 versions
$ yum –enablerepo=remi list firefox4
Install Mozilla Firefox 4 (beta 12)
$ yum –enablerepo=remi install firefox4
More details at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/RC/ & Mozilla Firefox 4 new features at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/RC/features/
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