Install Firefox In Debian/Crunchbang

In this post, we’re going to install Firefox in Crunchbang 11 ‘Waldorf’ same procedures here works for Debian.

By the default Crunchbang come with Iceweseal as a replacement for Firefox. But myself and many others see have had few problems with Iceweasel in terms of speed.

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Open terminal:

We first need to remove iceweasel.

sudo apt-get remove iceweasel

Open sources.list in favorite text editor.

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

And add this the codes below.

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import

Now let’s add the Mint keyring:

wget http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/l/linuxmint-keyring/linuxmint-keyring_2009.04.29_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linuxmint-keyring_2009.04.29_all.deb

Now, run:

sudo apt-get update

And finally install firefox:

sudo apt-get install firefox

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