
The organization's security engineers also patched seven vulnerabilities, four marked "High," Firefox's second-most-serious label. It is automatically updated with the system updates.Īnd if you like, you can also activate dark mode in Firefox.Mozilla this week updated Firefox to version 93, which now blocks downloads over insecure connections, improves the browser's anti-tracking prowess and introduces Firefox Suggest, the newest way the company will try to earn revenue. Since you are using repositories, you don’t need to worry about updating Firefox on Ubuntu. You can enjoy the newer, faster and better Firefox. Open a terminal and enter the following command one by one: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next

You can use the same PPA to install the upcoming versions of Firefox Mozilla has an official PPA to test the beta version. Using upcoming version of Firefox on Ubuntu using PPA ĭevelopers use PPA in Ubuntu to provide an easier way of installing software under development. You’ll see that when you start Firefox now, it uses the new Quantum version. Now create a symbolic link to the Firefox in /usr/bin so that all users will be able to run it: sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxĪnd that’s it. Now move the extracted Firefox Quantum directory to /opt sudo mv ~/Downloads/firefox /opt/firefox Step 4:

Just to make sure that you don’t have a Firefox there already, run the command below: sudo rm -r /opt/firefox It’s a standard practice to use /opt directory for keeping application files. Now copy the extracted files in /opt directory. cd ~/Downloads/ tar xjf firefox-* Step 3: If you haven’t extracted it already, open a terminal and use the following commands to extract it.
