In this Tutorial I will show you how to install Firefox 80 on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS ,LinuxMint 20 ,Fedora 32 and CentOS 7.X / 8.X. Fi...
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 80 on August 24th,2020
What's New in Firefox 80?
New:- Suports FFmpeg/VAAPI acceleration for Vieo playback on X11.
- Various security fixes
So how to install Firefox 80 on Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS?
Method 1 (For Debian based systems) Via PPA
Best and easy way is to upgrade firefox by updating the Repository, it will automatically upgraded to new version if the ppa is updatedssudo 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 tar file -- applicable for all distributions
Step 1:Download The Latest Version of Firefox 80 from their FTP using wgetFor 32 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/80.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-80.0.tar.bz2For 64 bit systems
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/80.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-80.0.tar.bz2Step 2: Extract the tar package
tar -xf firefox-80.0.tar.bz2Step 3: Move the Firefox folder to opt
Remove the Older version of firefox if it's there
sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox79
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox80Step 4: Create Symbolic link for New Firefox as default
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox80/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox
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