This script help you to install an update your firefox on debian GNU linux. If you have problems updating your firefox on debian this is your script. Features:
- Automatically detects the system core (32bits or 64bits)
- Works for install and for update
- Automatic detection of firefox versions
For use the script execute in a bash shell ./check_firefox
or source check_firefox
To automatically check and install the new Firefox version, the script could be added as a weekly Cron job.
touch /etc/cron.weekly/check_firefox
chmod 755 /etc/cron.weekly/check_firefox
You may change the Firefox language version from default US for example to French:
sed -i "s/en-US/fr/g" /etc/cron.weekly/check_firefox
All Firefox language versions are listed here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/README.txt