Firefox without SNAP

Mozilla offers portable tarball packages for Linux 64-bit and 32-bit. Firstly, you may download it from the link below:

After downloaded the package, open terminal from start menu and run the command below will extract it into /opt directory:

sudo rm /opt/firefox

sudo tar -jxf ~/Downloads/firefox-*.tar.bz2 -C /opt/

The “rm” command will clear old Firefox tarball (if any) from /opt if you’ve done that before.
Finally, create an app shortcut by running command in terminal:

nano ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop

Then copy the lines below and save it (press Ctrl+X, type y and hit Enter).

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Firefox Stable

Comment=Web Browser

Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox %u

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png

Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

StartupNotify=true

Actions=Private;

[Desktop Action Private]

Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox –private-window %u

Name=Open in private mode

After that, you can search “Firefox Stable” to open the web browser from start menu.

Uninstall Firefox portable:

To uninstall it, simply remove both app shortcut file and source folder.

sudo rm /opt/firefox

rm ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop