Mozilla Firefox for Mac is a Web browsing alternative that offers a full range of features to let you peruse your favorite sites with ease. This program offers all of the functionality you'd.
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You don't need to have a graphical Web browser installed on your Linux computer to download the Firefox Web browser. You can use the terminal, or command line, instead. This allows you to download a single file that can be copied to other computers in your office. If you use the wget or curl commands, you can download either the Linux or Windows versions of Firefox. If you only use a specific Linux distribution in your business, you can use the package manager to download the Firefox package for that distribution without installing it.
Wget
1.Open a terminal window or log in to the computer via SSH.
2.Download and install the wget package using your distribution's package manager, if it is not already installed. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian users type:
sudo apt-get install wget
Fedora and CentOS users type:
yum install wget
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3.Download Firefox
Use the 'cd' command to navigate to the directory where you want to store the downloaded file. For example, the command
cd Downloads
will place the file in the Downloads directory.
4.Use the 'wget' command to download the Firefox installation file for Linux:
wget 'http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-
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If you want to download the Windows installation file, type:
wget 'http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%20
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CURL
1.Open a terminal window or log in to the computer via SSH.
2.Download and install the cURL package using your distribution's package manager, if it is not already installed. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian users type:
sudo apt-get install curl
Fedora and CentOS users type:
yum install curl
3.Use the 'cd' command to navigate to the directory where you want to store the downloaded file. For example, the command
cd Downloads
will place the file in the Downloads directory.
4.Use the cURL command to download the latest Firefox installation file. To download the Linux version, type:
curl http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-
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To download the Windows installation file, type:
curl http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%20
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Package Manager
1.Open a terminal window or log in to the computer via SSH.
2.Use the apt command with the '-d' command to download Firefox without installing the package for Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint:
sudo apt-get -d install firefox
3.Download the yum-downloadonly plugin for Fedora or CentOS:
yum install yum-downloadonly
Next, use the yum command with the downloadonly plugin to download firefox without installing it:
yum update firefox -y --downloadonly
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Kristen Waters has been writing for the computer industry since 2004. She has written training materials for both large and small computer companies as well as how-to and informative articles for many online publications. She holds Bachelor of Science degrees from both York College of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland.
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