
If Firefox files are stored on your home directory, then only you can run this manually installed Firefox browser, so in order for other users to run it, we move it to /opt/ directory. All your Firefox configurations in your home directory will be read by this manually installed Firefox browser. If the built-in Firefox browser is running right now, you need to close it before you issue the above command. To start Firefox, run the firefox script in firefox directory./firefox/firefox As I said earlier, these files are pre-compiled binaries and Firefox is ready to run.

tar xvf firefox*.tar.bz2Ī new directory named firefox will be created in the current directory. The binary package is now available for download for Linux (POSIX) systems, grab the desired one, and enjoy browsing with new features added to it. Once downloaded, change your working directory to the download directory and extract the tar.bz2 file. Firefox 93 officially released for all major OS e.g. If you like command line, use the following command to download. This posed a significant problem when dealing with stability issues on Linux: for the majority of our crash reports, we couldn’t produce high-quality stack traces because we didn’t have the required symbol information. This file does not contain sources, but pre-compiled binary package.

This brief tutorial shows you how to manually install Firefox Web Browser on Linux.įirst go to to download the tar.bz2 file.
