In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Firefox 75 on Ubuntu 18.04 / 16.04 LTS, LinuxMint, Fedora, and CentOS 6.X / 7.x. Firef...
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Firefox 75 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
Firefox Released its new stable version 75 on April 7,2020
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 Released its new stable version 75 on April 7,2020
What's New in Firefox 75?
New:
- Focused, clean search experience that's optimized for smaller laptop screens
- Top sites now appear when you select the address
- Improved readability of search suggestions with a focus on new search terms
- Suggestions include solutions to common Firefox issues
- Firefox is now available in Flatpak, an easier way to install and use Firefox on Linux.
Fixes
- Various security fixes
Enterprise
- Experimental support for using client certificates from the OS certificate store can be enabled on macOS by setting the preference security.osclientcerts.autoload to true.
- Enterprise policies may be used to exclude domains from being resolved via TRR (Trusted Recursive Resolver) using DNS over HTTPS.
So how to install Firefox 75 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 is updatedsudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Method 2: Install Firefox via Flatpak
Step 1: Install Flatpak
Install it according to your OS distribution using the following link
Step 2: Search for the firefox package
flatpak search firefox
Step 3: Install firefox using flatpak
flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox
Step 4: Run firefox
flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox/x86_64/stable
Method 3: Via tar file -- applicable for all distributions
Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 75 from their FTP site using wget
For 32 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/75.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-75.0.tar.bz2For 64 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/75.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-75.0.tar.bz2Step 2: Extract the tar package
tar -xf firefox-75.0.tar.bz2Step 3: Move the Firefox folder to opt and remove the Older version of Firefox if it's there
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox74
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox75Step 4: Create a Symbolic link for New Firefox as default
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox75/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox
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