Install Firefox 39 on CentOS, Ubuntu & Other Linux Systems

Remove Existing Version’s

First remove any existing version of Firefox from your system if installed using rpm. Redhat based system use following command.

# yum remove firefox

Downloading Latest Firefox Archive

Download the latest Firefox archive from here (32 bit) and here (64 bit). At the time of last update of this article Firefox 39 is the latest version available. Download Firefox 39 source code as per your system architecture using one of following commands.

32-Bit Systems

# cd /usr/local
# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/39.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-39.0.tar.bz2

64-Bit Systems

# cd /usr/local
# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/39.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-39.0.tar.bz2

Extract Archive on System

After downloading latest version of Firefox archive on your system, let’s extract is using following command.

# tar xvjf firefox-39.0.tar.bz2

Configure Firefox

Firefox source is completely pre compiled and we don’t have to do anything to make it running on system. We just need to create a soft-link of Firefox binary file to systems bin directory to make it accessible from anywhere in system.

# ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

Now start Firefox using following command from Linux terminal.

# firefox &