This article will help you to install Firefox on CentOS, RedHat, and Fedora Linux operating systems. In this tutorial, we will use Firefox 108 compiled code available for Linux systems, which doesn’t require any compilation, etc. We need to just extract the archive file and start using it.

Useful links:-

• How to Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu
• How to Install Google Chrome on CentOS/RHEL

Step 1: Remove Any Existing Version

Some of the Linux distributions have pre-installed Firefox web browsers. So, it is recommended to remove any previous version installed on your system. Use the following command to remove the default installed firefox from rehat-based Linux distributions:

sudo dnf remove firefox  

Also, unlink or rename the current firefox binary (if available). For example, your current binary location is `/usr/bin/firefox`.

unlink /usr/bin/firefox        ## Or rename file 
mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox_bak 

Step 2: Download Latest Firefox for Linux

The next step is to download the latest version of Firefox from the Firefox download page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/). Make sure to select the “Linux 64-bit” option under “Desktop” and then click on the “Download Now” button to download the zip file.

Alternatively, you can use the following command to download Firefox 108 on your system:

cd ~/Downloads 
wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/108.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-108.0.tar.bz2 

Once the download is complete, open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you downloaded the zip file. For example, if you downloaded the file to the “Downloads” directory, you can use the following command:

tar xvjf firefox-108.0.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local 

This will extract all files under `/usr/local/firefox` directory.

Step 3 – Install Firefox on Linux

Firefox source is completely pre-compiled and we don’t have to do anything to make it run on the system. Here installing Firefox means configuring Firefox to work on your system. You just need to create a soft link of the Firefox binary file to the systems bin directory to make it accessible from anywhere in the system.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox 

Now start Firefox using the following command from the Linux terminal. You may also use the GUI menu to start Firefox on your system.

firefox & 

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Conclusion

In this article, we have shown you how to download and install the latest version of Firefox from a zip file on a CentSO/RHEL 8/7 and Fedora 37/36/35 Linux system. We hope this information was helpful and will make it easier for you to use Firefox on your system.

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NOTE: This will replace your main Mozilla Firefox installation on your system. So if you want to keep your existing installation use following article Install Mozilla Developer Edition using Source Code.

Install Firefox Developer Edition

Use the following set of commands to install Firefox developer edition of your system. The first command will add Second, add a repository for download Mozilla Firefox developer edition. Just follow this command.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firefox

The above command will complete installation of Mozilla Firefox developer edition on your system.

Happy Coding!!!

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