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Installing Firefox on Kali Linux

Mozilla Firefox is a quite handy browser compared to Iceweasel (default browser in Kali Linux). It has lot of plug-in features that Iceweasel lag. Sometimes, we find it difficulty while navigating through Iceweasel . Hence, I thought of installing Mozilla   Firefox . To do this, you have to first un-install  Iceweasel  from Kali Linux or else it won't allow you to install  Mozilla Firefox . Here are the step that I performed. 1. Open root terminal window and type     apt-get remove iceweasel it removes  iceweasel   from the application menu 2. type  echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null it adds repository for the installation 3. type apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29 import the required gpg key 4. type apt-get update update the required package 5. type apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build install mozilla ...

How to install Adobe Flash Player in Kali Linux?

1. goto www.get.adobe.com/flashplayer 2. select .tar.gz for other Linux from the drop down list and click on Download now . 3. it will ask you select the location of the file. browse the location where you want to download the file click on OK . 4. once the file is downloaded, open terminal window and goto the location of downloaded file using cd command 5. check if the file is available in terminal window using ls command (this step is however optional) 7. type tar xzvf install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz in the terminal window to extract the file 8. finally, type cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to copy the files  You are done installing flash player