Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM-based linux distributions!

After introducing Debian packages for Firefox Nightly, we’re now excited to extend that to RPM-based distributions.

Just like with the Debian packages, switching to Mozilla’s RPM repository allows Firefox to be installed and updated like any other application, using your favorite package manager. It also provides a number of improvements:

• Better performance thanks to our advanced compiler-based optimizations,
• Updates as fast as possible because the .rpm management is integrated into Firefox’s release process,
• Hardened binaries with all security flags enabled during compilation,
• No need to create your own .desktop file.

To install Firefox Nightly, follow these steps:

If you are on fedora (41+), or any other distribution using dnf5 as the package manager

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --id=mozilla --set=baseurl=https://packages.mozilla.org/rpm/firefox --set=gpgcheck=0 --set=repo_gpgcheck=0
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
sudo dnf install firefox-nightly

If you are on openSUSE or any other distribution using zypper as the package manager

sudo zypper ar -G https://packages.mozilla.org/rpm/firefox mozilla
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install firefox-nightly

For other RPM based distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, older Fedora versions)

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mozilla.repo > /dev/null << EOF
[mozilla]
name=Mozilla Packages
baseurl=https://packages.mozilla.org/rpm/firefox
enabled=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgcheck=0
EOF

# For dnf users
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
sudo dnf install firefox-nightly

# For zypper users
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install firefox-nightly

Note: gpgcheck is currently disabled until Bug 2009927 is addressed.

It is worth noting that the firefox-nightly package will not conflict with your distribution’s Firefox package if you have it installed, you can have both at the same time!

Adding language packs

If your distribution language is set to a supported language, language packs for it should automatically be installed. You can also install them manually with the following command (replace fr with the language code of your choice):

sudo dnf install firefox-nightly-l10n-fr

You can list the available languages with the following command:

dnf search firefox-nightly-l10n

Don’t hesitate to report any problem you encounter to help us make your experience better.