How to Install Firefox 46 in Linux

Firefox is a free and open source web browser from Mozilla. Firefox 46.0.1 Released for systems and Android on May 3, 2016 with various bug fixes major issue related to add-on memory leaks.

What’s new and What’s fixed

This article will help you to install Firefox 46 on Linux systems.

Remove Existing Firefox

First remove any existing version of Firefox from your system using following command.

On CentOS/RHEL
# yum remove firefox
On Ubuntu/Debain
# sudo apt-get remove firefox

Downloading Latest Firefox

Download the latest Firefox archive using one of following commands.
For 32 Bit Systems

# cd /opt
# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/46.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-46.0.1.tar.bz2

For 64 Bit Systems

# cd /opt
# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/46.0.1/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-46.0.1.tar.bz2

Extract Archive

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

# bunzip2 firefox-46.0.1.tar.bz2
# tar xvf firefox-46.0.1.tar

Configure Firefox 46

After extracting the archive use the following command to configure firefox.

# sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

Now start Firefox using following command from Linux terminal. You may also use GUI menu to start Firefox on your system.

# firefox &

Enjoy it!