In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Firefox 76 on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS, LinuxMint 19.3, Fedora 32, and CentOS 7.X / 8....
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 76 on MAY 5,2020
What's New in Firefox 76?
New:
- Double-clicking on the Picture-in-Picture player window now puts it in fullscreen mode.
- Warnings will now appear on saved logins if the same password was stored for a site that was subject to a website breach.
- Improvements to password generation and saving to work with many sites that previously didn’t.
Fixes
- Various security fixes
Changed
- Accessing saved passwords in about: logins on Windows and macOS now requires the user to authenticate with their operating system if no master password is set.
So how to install Firefox 76 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: Via Flatpak
Step 1: Install FlatpakInstall it according to your OS distribution using the following link
Step 2: Search for the firefox package
flatpak search firefoxStep 3: Install firefox using flatpak
flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefoxStep 4: Run firefox
flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox/x86_64/stable
Method 3: Via Snap
Step 1: Install SNAP app on the systemsudo apt-get install snapd snapd-xdg-openStep 2: Install Firefox via SNAP
sudo snap install firefox
Method 4: Via tar file -- applicable for all distributions
Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 76 from their FTP using wgetFor 32 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/76.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-76.0.tar.bz2For 64 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/76.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-76.0.tar.bz2Step 2: Extract the tar package
tar -xf firefox-76.0.tar.bz2Step 3: Move the Firefox folder to opt and remove the older version of Firefox if it's there
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox75
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox76Step 4: Create a Symbolic link for New Firefox as default
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox76/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox
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