Install Firefox 77 on Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS & Fedora

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Firefox 77 on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS, LinuxMint 19.3, Fedora 32, and CentOS 7.X / 8.X...

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Firefox 77 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 77 on June 2,2020

What's New in Firefox 77?

New:

• Pocket recommendations, featuring some of the best stories on the web, will appear on the Firefox new tab for our users in the UK
• WebRender continues its roll out to more Firefox for Windows users, now available by default on Windows 10 laptops running on Nvidia GPUs
• You can view and manage web certificates more easily on the new about:certificate page.

Fixes

• Various security fixes

Changed

• The browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches preference has been removed. To hide one-off search buttons uncheck search engines on the about:preferences#search page

So how to install Firefox 77 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 - Applicable for all Linux distributions

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 77 from their FTP using wget

For 32 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/77.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-77.0.tar.bz2

For 64 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/77.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-77.0.tar.bz2

Step 2: Extract the tar package

tar -xf firefox-77.0.tar.bz2

Step 3: Move the Firefox folder to opt

sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox76

sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox77

Step 4: Create the Symbolic link for New Firefox as default

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

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox77/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox