Chapter 19. Install firefox

  1. Remove Snap

    The Snap version has the most irritating upgrade reminders in the world. We should have already killed snap, so get Firefox from a special deb package, from flatpak, or by compiling.

  2. From a deb package

    To install Firefox from a deb package, see firefox instructions

  3. From flatpak

    To install from flatpak: sudo apt install flatpak

    flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

    flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox

  4. Compile

    See Building Firefox on Linux.

    Before running firefox for the first time, mkdir -p ~/.config/mozilla/ or else firefox will create config in ~/.mozilla.