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    How to Install Firefox 108 on Fedora 37/36 & CentOS 8/7

    By RahulDecember 30, 20223 Mins Read

    Firefox is a popular web browser that is known for its speed, security, and privacy features. In this article, we will show you how to download and install the latest version of Firefox from a zip file on a Fedora or CentOS system.

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    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:-

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    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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    50 Comments

    1. triplek on January 20, 2021 5:43 am

      Your post was very helpful. Thank you.

      Reply
    2. belleDrerb on December 13, 2020 3:43 am

      Hello i am new user and i would to ask you, How to disable a pm?

      Reply
    3. Oren on October 12, 2020 5:10 am

      Thanks, but what about some authentication check for the downloaded file?

      Reply
    4. Joseph on May 28, 2020 2:57 pm

      Thanks for the guide. Can firefox auto update if we follow above method ?

      Reply
    5. Barbaros Özhan on May 18, 2020 7:43 pm

      Thank you Rahul. It helped me very much.

      Reply
    6. Joyceecows on May 11, 2020 5:57 pm

      Are you a leader or a follower?

      Reply
    7. syam on August 24, 2019 2:15 am

      thank you for sharing knowledge

      Reply
    8. emma jolie on August 13, 2019 12:15 pm

      Hello everyone! I had the same problem with libgtk3.so missing on CentOS 6.8, but googlin’ it I found <a href=this:https://browsertechnicalsupportnumbers.com/blog/fix-mozilla-firefox-can't-connect-server-internet/.It´s means that since firefox version 42, It´s no longer compatible with CentOS 6.
      The easier option is to install firefox 41. Change every step on this tutorial on this version and it will works!

      I hope it will be helpful for you.

      Reply
      • Dipshix on December 18, 2019 11:33 pm

        Or, using el7, you could just ‘sudo yum -y install gtk3-devel’ to get the missing dependancy?

        Reply
    9. Sunil Poshala on June 18, 2019 10:59 am

      Info 2 – The CentOS/RedHat 6 only supports Firefox 41….
      the info is useful… Firefox 67 has gtk lib’s issues on Centos 6

      Reply
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    11. woolie on March 17, 2018 3:19 pm

      For those interested enough, here is my repo with some installation scripts that I wrote for Debian/Ubuntu: https://github.com/sid-the-sloth/install-scripts

      Check it out!

      Reply
    12. Alan Saldanha on December 19, 2017 5:37 am

      I am running RHEL 5.10 trying to install firefox. After installation, when I type the command “firefox &”, Im getting an error hat GLIBCXX NOT FOUND. Please help.

      [[email protected] local]# sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
      [[email protected] local]# firefox &
      [1] 6651
      [[email protected] local]# firefox: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.10′ not found (required by firefox)
      firefox: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9′ not found (required by firefox)
      firefox: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11′ not found (required by firefox)
      [[email protected] local]#

      Reply
      • Exal Matuz on February 20, 2019 12:08 am

        Bro, Could you solve your problem? i have the same trouble

        Reply
    13. Pablo Cordero on October 15, 2017 9:00 pm

      Hello everyone! I had the same problem with libgtk3.so missing on CentOS 6.8, but googlin’ it I found this:
      https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57708
      It´s means that since firefox version 42, It´s no longer compatible with CentOS 6.
      The more easier option is to install firefox 41. Change every steps on this tutorial on this version and it will works!

      Kind regards.

      Reply
    14. Widhi on February 14, 2017 7:18 pm

      Can you write new article for install nightly firefox in centos?
      I need tutorial for it..

      Reply
      • Thuurio on December 26, 2017 9:33 pm

        Config: Centos 7 with kernel 4 version

        I downloaded FF 57 with my old version 52 it goes into your Downloads dir.

        Yum remove old version see above instruction

        Remove .mozilla directory in your home directory

        TAR it see above instruction

        Move the FF 57 folder to /usr/local

        LN -s as per above instruction

        It should work Good luck

        Reply
    15. srinivas on August 5, 2016 10:46 am

      Working fine for me.Thnx

      Reply
    16. Eugene on July 26, 2016 9:19 pm

      Hi,
      getting error: any advice?
      XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/firefox/libmozgtk.so
      Couldn’t load XPCOM.

      Linux

      Reply
    17. Chrystal on June 3, 2016 5:56 am

      hi I got this message: what does it mean and what do I do about it?

      ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/bin/firefox’: file exists.

      What do I do now?

      Reply
      • Robert Dinse on June 16, 2017 10:39 am

        Try purging rather than just removing existing firefox so it takes the conf with it. If that doesn’t do it, manually rm the file.

        Reply
    18. Howard on May 22, 2016 11:45 am

      Did step 2. Just returned “Permission denied”. According to synaptic package manager I’ve gor FF files. According to everything else, “No such file or directory”. Have just spent days getting LM Rosa 17.3 64bit back from the dead (37 broken packages repaired – eventually) and now have no browser or web access. HELP!!!!1

      Reply
      • Howard on May 22, 2016 12:06 pm

        Sorted! Managed to resolve in Synaptic Package Manager. Had to go through language pack by language pack though (probably cocked summat else up knowing me!) deleting extraneous (to me) languages. All tickedy-boo now. Yippee ?

        Reply
    19. dganesh2002 on February 25, 2016 1:28 am

      I am getting below issues when launching firefox :

      XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox35/libxul.so:
      libgio-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
      Couldn’t load XPCOM.

      Reply
    20. Akshay Kumbhar on February 24, 2016 6:38 am

      Cool. worked perfectly

      Reply
    21. rajiv on July 15, 2015 6:28 am

      Hi, Rahul i just installed centos basic server and followed your steps it didn’t work for me….

      first i got this
      [[email protected] local]# -bash: /usr/bin/firefox: cannot execute binary file
      cd /
      [1]+ Exit 126 firefox (wd: /usr/local)
      (wd now: /)

      then i tried from /#

      [[email protected] /]# -bash: /usr/bin/firefox: cannot execute binary file
      [1]+ Exit 126 firefox

      can u please help me….

      Reply
    22. joe on May 3, 2015 8:54 pm

      thanks a lot.

      Reply
    23. Kimpe Andy on April 11, 2015 6:18 pm

      I do not recommend yum remove firefox

      just

      [code]rm -f usr/bin/firefox

      ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox[/code]

      centos 6 64 bit update compatibility module flash and freshplayerplugin work enter command

      [code]sudo cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
      sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

      sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins[/code]

      Reply
      • Alaa Alnajjar on March 6, 2016 7:15 am

        Thanks Kimpe

        As for x64 compatibility module flash,the commands didn’t work for me, I had to copy from lib64/mozilla/plugins to lib/mozilla/plugins not the other way

        Reply
    24. Raj on April 11, 2015 4:12 pm

      Thanks for the instructions. it is working.

      Reply
    25. Sidd on December 20, 2014 6:15 am

      Nice blog, its working 🙂
      Save my day……

      Reply
    26. Jagadish on December 4, 2014 6:37 am

      Hi, Is it possible to update firefox on edbuntu live edition..?
      It went every thing well.
      At last it gave can’t create link bcaz already exists.

      Reply
    27. Zhargal on October 1, 2014 9:46 am

      I always see: Permission denied, and I ca’nt figure out what to do, I can’t even copy any file to usr/local
      please help, I like CentOS

      Reply
      • Cooper on January 28, 2016 2:39 am

        use the ‘sudo’ command before that step as such;

        sudo tar xvjf firefox-44.0.tar.bz2

        Reply
    28. Johnny on September 21, 2014 12:37 am

      Hi
      I would like to know on Centos 7 , with gnome gui installed, is this Firefox install will just replace the current Firefox Or it will install in a separate location ?

      Thanks

      Reply
    29. nader on September 19, 2014 7:46 pm

      when using Firefox 31 with CentOS 7 it can’t see flash player even it’s installed in my machine. any ideas ?

      Reply
    30. michael on September 10, 2014 7:00 pm

      Will this installation destroy the current version of FF, if say you change it a little and write:
      ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/farefox

      Reply
    31. Mako on September 9, 2014 1:27 am

      Say is this version compatible with a 2006 ACER 5003WLMi 64 bit Turion running 2008-4 Ubuntu Lucid Lynx? Or what should I try to get- where’s the stable FF repository that still works? And Skype. Thanks.

      Reply
    32. Frank on August 21, 2014 7:00 am

      I have some error message here. How can I fix this problem? Thank you!
      XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/firefox/libxul.so:
      libgio-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
      Couldn’t load XPCOM.

      Reply
    33. em on August 9, 2014 12:13 am

      This did not work for me?

      Reply
      • Rahul on August 9, 2014 8:58 am

        Hi Em,

        What issue are you facing ?

        Reply
        • manm on November 27, 2015 9:47 am

          [email protected] ~/Downloads $ tar xvjf firefox-42.0.tar.bz2
          tar (child): firefox-43.0b6.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
          tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
          tar: Child returned status 2
          tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

          why happen this??

          Reply
          • Anuket Jain on May 19, 2016 8:31 am

            Hi Manm,

            You issue will be resolve using below commands:

            # bunzip2 firefox-42.0.tar.bz2
            # tar xvf firefox-42.0.tar

            Reply
    34. Mr Mango on August 3, 2014 4:06 pm

      Must install xulrunner 31 first before you install firefox 31, or wise the hwol thing makefucntions

      Reply
    35. sreenu on July 7, 2014 11:31 am

      Hi.. Rahul, in my linux (rhel 5.7 32bit i686 ) have alredy firefox 3.0 but i need lastest version how can i do please tell me i tried this article also but nothing new in my firefox
      i tried other rpm also but dependency problem can u please tell me steps please

      Reply
    36. dinesh on June 28, 2014 12:26 pm

      hi nice i installed and user for excuting command it showing error like error: no display specified please help me ..beacuse im using centos 6 in only cli mode

      Reply
      • Rahul on June 30, 2014 3:46 am

        Hi Dinesh,

        You can’t use Firefox in CLI mode. For CLI mode you may use elinks command.

        Reply
        • dinesh on June 30, 2014 7:35 am

          i install jira in centos cli system..now acces in my laptop in googlechrome…i start the jira setup step 1 is choose the internal databse or external databse ,,, i accidently choosen internal dabase ..now im in setp 2 application properties i want get back step 1 help me how there is no option to going back to setp 1

          Reply
    37. ModMan on June 13, 2014 7:47 pm

      nice tutorial on neat blog. thanks
      but how to install flash player?

      Reply
    38. taumal on May 26, 2014 5:34 am

      I need to update firefox 28 to 29 on ubuntu 12.10

      Reply

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