Install Firefox 74.0 on Ubuntu / CentOS / LinuxMint

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Firefox 74.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 / 16.04 LTS, LinuxMint, Fedora 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

What's New in Firefox 74.0?

• Your login management has improved with the ability to reverse alpha sort (Name Z-A) in Lockwise, which you can access under Logins and Passwords.
• Firefox now makes importing your bookmarks and history from the new Microsoft Edge browser on Windows and Mac simple.
• Add-ons installed by external applications can now be removed using the Add-ons Manager (about:addons). Going forward, only users can install add-ons; they cannot be installed by an application.
• Facebook Container prevents Facebook from tracking you around the web - Facebook logins, likes, and comments are automatically blocked on non-Facebook sites. But when you need an exception, you can now create one by adding custom sites to the Facebook Container.
• Firefox now provides better privacy for your web voice and video calls through support for mDNS ICE by cloaking your computer’s IP address with a random ID in certain WebRTC scenarios.
• Changed
• When a video is uploaded with a batch of photos on Instagram, the Picture-in-Picture toggle would sit atop of the “next” button. The toggle is now moved to allow you to flip through to the next image of the batch.
• On Windows, Ctrl+I can now be used to open the Page Info window instead of opening the Bookmarks sidebar. Ctrl+B still opens the Bookmarks sidebar making keyboard shortcuts more useful for our users.

Fixes

Various security fixes.

So how to install Firefox 74 on Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS?

Method 1 (For Debian based systems) Via PPA

The best and easy way is to upgrade firefox by updating the Repository, it will automatically be upgraded to the new version if the PPA updates

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Method 2: Via tar file -- applicable for all distributions

Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 74 from their FTP using wget

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/74.0/

For 32 bit systems

>wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/74.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-74.0.tar.bz2 For 64 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/74.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-74.0.tar.bz2

Step 2: Extract the tar package

tar -xjf firefox-74.0.tar.bz2

Step 3: Move the Firefox folder to opt

Remove the Older version of Firefox if it's there

sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox73

sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox73

Step 4: Create a symbolic link for New Firefox as default

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

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox74/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox