Install Firefox 75 on Ubuntu / CentOS / LinuxMint & Fedora

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

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 updated

sudo 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.bz2

For 64 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/75.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-75.0.tar.bz2

Step 2: Extract the tar package

tar -xf firefox-75.0.tar.bz2

Step 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/firefox75

Step 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