Install Firefox 76 on Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS & Fedora

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....

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.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 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 updated

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Method 2: 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 Snap

Step 1: Install SNAP app on the system

sudo apt-get install snapd snapd-xdg-open

Step 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 wget
For 32 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/76.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-76.0.tar.bz2

For 64 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/76.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-76.0.tar.bz2

Step 2: Extract the tar package

tar -xf firefox-76.0.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/firefox75

sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox76

Step 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