Install Firefox 79 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint / CentOS & Fedora

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Firefox 79 on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS, LinuxMint 20, Fedora 32, and CentOS 7.X / 8.X. ...

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Firefox 79 on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS, LinuxMint 20, 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 79 on July 27,2020

What's New in Firefox 79?

New:

• Second iteration of the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) feature, which will now automatically protect you from unwanted first-party cookies

Fixes

• Various security fixes

So how to install Firefox 79 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 tar file -- applicable for all distributions

Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 79 from their FTP using wget

For 32 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/79.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-79.0.tar.bz2

For 64 bit systems

wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/79.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-79.0.tar.bz2

Step 2: Extract the tar package

tar -xf firefox-79.0.tar.bz2

Step 3: Move the Firefox folder to opt

Remove the Older version of Firefox if it's there

sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox78

sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox79

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

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

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox79/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox