Mozilla Firefox 24 is released and this is guide, howto install Firefox 24 on Fedora 19/18/17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 using YUM. Firefox 17 ESR (Extended Support Release) is currently available on CentOS 6.4/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/5.9 own repos, so with this guide you can also install Firefox 17 ESR on CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9.
What’s new in Firefox 24
Mixed content blocking enabled to protects users from man-in-the-middle attacks and eavesdroppers on HTTPS pages
Implemented Close tabs to the right
Social: Ability to tear-off chat windows to view separately by simply dragging them out
Performance improvements on New Tab Page loads
Improved and unified Browser console for enhanced debugging experience, replacing existing Error console
Security fixes
What’s new in Firefox 17 (ESR)
First revision of the Social API and support for Facebook Messenger
Updated Awesome Bar experience with larger icons
JavaScript Maps and Sets are now iterable
Improvements that make the Web Console, Debugger and Developer Toolbar faster and easier to use
New Markup panel in the Page Inspector allows easy editing of the DOM
Sandbox attribute for iframes implemented, enabling increased security
Over twenty performance improvements, including fixes around the New Tab page
## Remi Dependency on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
## CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
4. Check Available Firefox versions
Fedora 19/18
yum list firefox
Fedora 17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4
yum--enablerepo=remi list firefox
CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9
yum list firefox
Note: Firefox 17 ESR available.
5. Update or Install Mozilla Firefox 24/17
Fedora 19/18
yum update firefox
## OR ##yum install firefox
Fedora 17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.4 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4
yum--enablerepo=remi update firefox
## OR ##yum--enablerepo=remi install firefox