How To Install Latest Firefox on Debian Safely

Debian is always one of my favorite distro. It feels like, let's say "the vanilla version" of Ubuntu. In fact, Debian is the great grandfather for a lot of uncountable Linux distros, including Ubuntu and, yes, LinuxMint.

As Ubuntu based on Debian, the two giants are similar in a lot of ways. I mostly use Ubuntu as my daily driver for years because of its simplicity. Unfortunately, recently I have an issue with my WLAN card and the latest Ubuntu's Linux kernel.

Because I've been too tired to solve the issue, I try to install the latest Debian 11 "Bullseye" and amazingly everything works excellent. My WLAN card works as I expected and I'm very happy with it.

The only minor issue I have with Debian is, I can't install the latest Mozilla Firefox directly from Debian's repository. The Firefox-ESR is good, but for some reasons, I need the fresh, newest Firefox to run some specific tasks.

So I've improvised to install latest Firefox onto my Debian 11 machine, carefully, safely. Here are what I've done to Install Latest Firefox on Debian:

Install the necesary dependency:
sudo apt install libdbus-glib-1-2
Download the binary from the Firefox's official download page.
You'll get a binary archive, extract it. Go to the directory where the extracted binary located.
Copy the Firefox icon from the extracted folder using Terminal:
sudo cp firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default128.png /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png
Move the Firefox's extracted binary into opt:
sudo mv firefox /opt
Using any text editor, create a new file called mozilla-firefox.desktop and drop these lines:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Mozilla Firefox
GenericName=Mozilla Firefox
Comment=Access the Internet
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Icon=firefox
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

Save the file.
Make the file executable:
chmod +x mozilla-firefox.desktop
Move the file into your local applications directory:
mv mozilla-firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
Now you have the latest Mozilla Firefox on your Debian machine.

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