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.
- Various security fixes
- 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 updatedsudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Method 2: Via Flatpak - Applicable for all Linux distributions
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 tar file -- applicable for all distributions
Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 77 from their FTP using wgetFor 32 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/77.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-77.0.tar.bz2For 64 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/77.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-77.0.tar.bz2Step 2: Extract the tar package
tar -xf firefox-77.0.tar.bz2Step 3: Move the Firefox folder to opt
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox76
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox77Step 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
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