Firefox Nightly is Now Available for ARM64

Using Linux on a 64-bit ARM device and longing to use Firefox Nightly builds? Well, you’re in luck — Mozilla has finally made ARM64 Linux builds available to download.

As I understand it most Linux distributions that support ARM64/AArch64 offer a native ARM version of Firefox in their repos (in Ubuntu that’s via snap) though some Linux ARM distros only offer Firefox ESR, which is a long-term support version lacking newer features.

It’s not been possible to get Firefox for ARM64 directly from Mozilla itself.

But that’s changing.

When Mozilla launched its own APT repo bringing DEB versions of Firefox to Debian users it received feedback from Linux ARM folks that they would like to see ARM64 builds added to it.

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