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Just a short post to report my impressions on the just released version 4 of Mozilla’s browser. As soon as I realized a stable version has been released I decided to install it on the EEEPC 900.
Download and Installation
Mozilla download page offers, for Linux computers, a tar archive installation option but for Debian based distribution a repository is also available. Plenty of sites reports installation instructions I got them from here.
So installing Firefox has been matter of simply typing the following command in the console:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox
First impressions
Here is how Firefox 4 looks like.
On Mozilla web page they say the new Firefox is six time faster than the previous version, may be it doesn’t look exactly six time faster when you use it but it appears faster without doubt. Compared to Google Chrome pages loading times seem to be almost the same, but Chrome is still more responsive on more Javascript filled pages, I’d say that Firefox has almost filled the gap to Google rival. By the way, whatever you choose, it’s good to have the problem of choosing. Especially speaking about browsers.
Update
Since I had some comments about it, let me explicitally remind that these instructions (should) work with Ubuntu. Installing Firefox on the EEEPC’s original Xandros installation, if possible, is a different thing. Like I did already write in comments you can try the script posted here (the page is in Italian), or you can think about installing another Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Puppy Linux.
Thanks for visiting munir ardi!
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Posted by paxquiao-mosley fight at April 14, 2011, 12:39 amI have tried to added the following line eepc 701 w/Xandros
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
and “get sudo add-apt-repository: command line not found”
So my Firefox 4.0 does not work and it seems unfixable for now 
Sorry I forgot to say that I have Ubuntu installed on my EEEPC, I removed xandros from my netbook in 2009 so sometimes I forget to be more specific.
Installing Firefox in Xandros is a different thing, some sources say it's not possible (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=756102) others say it could be.
I can't try it but there seems to be a script (http://eeepc901.altervista.org/blog/?p=1356) that do the work (the page is in italian).
I'd personally suggest you to upgrade to a newer Linux version I tried Ubuntu 10.04 on the 701 and it worked fine. Puppy linux should also be fine and leave to you more free disk space.
Posted by musante at April 22, 2011, 10:31 pmdont work with eee pc 8g (xandors)… im tryin to update mozilla into 4…. any one can help me!
Posted by underbadcover at June 4, 2011, 3:03 amI have Xandros. Forget Firefox. I’ve never been able to install anything.
Posted by Glenn at June 4, 2011, 6:28 amThanks underbadcover & Glenn for visiting, sorry I cant help you with installing Firefox on Xandros. I updated the post just to be more explicit that experience I posted is about Ubuntu.
If the script I linked in my last comment doesn’t work you should think about upgrading to another Linux distribution.
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I have using this MF 4 and faster than before thanks for this review
Posted by munir ardi at March 31, 2011, 5:50 pm