Many Linux distributions come with Firefox pre-installed through their package manager and set as the default browser. However, if you need to install Firefox on Linux using a different method, the following guide will show you various alternative ways to download and install Firefox on Linux.
Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux
Install Firefox .deb package for Debian-based distributions (Recommended)
To install the .deb
package through the APT repository, do the following:
Create a directory to store APT repository keys if it doesn’t exist:
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
Import the Mozilla APT repository signing key:
wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc > /dev/null
Next, add the Mozilla APT repository to your sources list:
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list > /dev/null
Configure APT to prioritize packages from the Mozilla repository:
echo '
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
Pin-Priority: 1000
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla
Update your package list and install the Firefox .deb package:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox
That is it, you should now have Firefox installed on your system.