Debian 10 buster install the latest Firefox

The distribution Debian Linux Comes with Firefox ESR ( Support Release), which in some cases may not suit your needs.

Below we will see how to replace the default Firefox ESR of the Debian distribution with the latest version of Firefox.

First you need to download the latest tar-ball of the proτος περιήγησης της Mozilla. Ανοίξτε ένα and type (copy and paste) the following command:

Download Firefox in English

wget -O FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US"

Download in Greek

wget -O FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=el"

If you want the application to another one , select the language from this page.

You can download the application directly, and open a terminal at the point where you saved the download to proceed with the commands mentioned below.

Now that you've downloaded the necessary file, we can create the folder it needs to install, and unzip the tar.bz2 application:

Type (copy and paste) the following commands as root:

mkdir /opt/firefox
tar xjf FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 -C /opt/firefox/

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Below it seems that I did not create the dir opt / firefox because it already existed

To replace the Firefox ESR application with the one you just installed, make a backup copy of the original Firefox included with the Debian distribution and create a new symbolic which shows in the latest version of Firefox:

mv /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_orig

and

ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr

To update Firefox you have to run the following commands, or first is to download the latest version and the second to replace the files in / opt / firefox

Download Firefox in English

wget -O FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US"

Download in Greek

wget -O FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=el"

and

tar xjf FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 -C /opt/firefox/

To restore the ESR version, run the following commands:

unlink /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr

and

mv /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_orig /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr

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