Firefox or Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla foundation and generally utilized by thousands and thousands of individuals on their daily actions.
This tutorial will be helpful for the beginners to install firefox 76 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, LinuxMint 19.3, and CentOS 8.1 / 7.x
This version 76 comes with new features and bugfixes and released on May 5, 2020
Firefox 76 changelog
- Security fixes
- The double-clicking Picture-in-Picture player window now puts in fullscreen
- Improvements to password generation
- warnings will now appear on saved logins
Install Firefox 76 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint / Debian / CentOS
4 ways we can install firefox in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, LinuxMint 19.3, CentOS 8.1 and Debian
Method 1: PPA
The latest version of Firefox will be updated to the repositories, just update the repository and install it using the below command
sudo apt update
sudo apt install firefox
Method 2: Via SNAP
Step 1: Install the SNAP store on your system
sudo apt install snap
sudo snap install firefox
Method 3: Via Flatpak
Step 1: Install Flatpak on your system by using the Flatpak setup guide
Step 2: Install firefox using Flatpak
flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox
Step 3: Run Firefox
flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox/x86_64/stable
Method 4: Via Source file
Step 1: Download the tar file from the firefox FTP site
Step 2: Extract the downloaded tar file to opt
tar -xf firefox-76.0.tar.bz2 && mv firefox /opt/firefox76
Step 3: Create symbolic links and set Firefox 76 as default
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox76/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox
