How To Install Firefox 62 On Ubuntu / CentOS / LinuxMint

This Tutorial will be helpful to Install Firefox 62 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS, LinuxMint 18, Fedora 27 and CentOS 6.X / 7.x.

Firefox most commonly used browsers by everyone and one of the standard browsers too.

It is an opensource browser and it is developed by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation and available for Multiple Operating systems (ie) Windows, Linux, Mac OSX. and it comes with its private mode and powerful plugins.

Firefox 62.0 Changelog

Please refer the link for the complete changelog

How to install Firefox 62 on Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS?

Method 1: Via PPA

Ubuntu 18.04 users will get their updates via the repository

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Method 2: Via Tar file

Step 1: Download The Latest Version of Firefox 62 from their FTP site

For 32 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/62.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-62.0.tar.bz2

For 64 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/62.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-62.0.tar.bz2

Step 2: Extract the tar package

tar -xjf firefox-62.0.tar.bz2

Step 3: Move the Firefox folder to opt

Remove the Older version of Firefox if it's there

sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox61

sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox62

Step 4: Create Symbolic link for New Firefox as default

sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox62/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox