Is there a way to upgrade firefox on Linux Mint 19.1? Why has draconian Linux Mint banned this?
I'm putting off upgrading Linux as I have many hundreds of undocumented addons which will be lost and would take forever to attempt to remember how to re-install.
(in fact I might just switch to macos and try using homebrew).
It seems very harsh that upgrading Firefox has been prevented by linux mint for years now.
Yes Homebrew is perhaps the way forward! Life would be easier with just one O/S as I need Macos anyway for adobe lightroom.
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Linux Mint... What version are they on? Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla, run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release You can then just use the import option and or sync to get your data into the new browser. I run several versions from my Download folder. see screenshots
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Mozilla publishes technical requirements for each major release. If you aren't running a recent version of Linux, you may need to check these manually. For example, the latest Extended Support Release is based on Firefox 128:
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/128.0/system-requirements/#gnulinux
davegott2 said
Is there a way to upgrade firefox on Linux
Unlike with macOS and Windows, there are multiple ways you can install Firefox on Linux.
Depending on your Linux distro one can use ex: .rpm, .deb, Snap, flatpak or perhaps the best long term way in keeping Firefox up to date is with the tar.bz2 tarbals from Mozilla. https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/desktop-release/linux64/
With the tar.bz2 version you just untar it and run the Firefox-bin to start Firefox. You just have to make sure the Firefox folder has read/write permissions for the user so you can then get internal Firefox updates from Mozilla. An easy way is to put the Firefox folder in Home.
Older versions of a Linux distro gets dropped in package updates over time so as a result packages like Firefox may no longer get package updates from the distro unless you install a newer version of the distro. The tarbal version does not care about this as Firefox may even run fine on a distro version from a decade a go and long since stopped in package support.
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