• Download Firefox from the Mozilla multilanguage download page
• If existent remove /opt/firefox
• Copy the package to /opt
• Untar (untar -xf) the downloaded Firefox package
• Make a quick launch button to /opt/firefox/firefox
• The icon can be found at /opt/firefox/browser/icons
• Add the user(s) which should be able to update Firefox to the group users
  • usermod --groups users --append user (if there are multiple users repeat this for each user)
  • chown -R root:users /opt/firefox
  • chmod -R g+w /opt/firefox
• Add a Firefox quick launch button in the Panel

Download the Firefox deb file from (replace Tessa with the name of latest Linux Mint version):

http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Tessa 

And the language file, if needed, from the same page Now you have two options:

• Make a local repository
• Install the package with: dpkg -i

Make a local package repository. See: Setting up package repositories
Copy the downloaded file(s) to

/home/user/deb_files/

and

/home/user/deb_files/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386

Do

cd /home/user/deb_files/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386

Run

dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null | gzip -c --best  > Packages.gz
cp Packages.gz /home/user/deb_files

Do (or use aptitude or synaptic packagemanager)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox
sudo apt-get install firefox-l10n-nl     (change nl for your local language)

Run

dpkg -i /home/user/deb_files/firefox[whatelseisinthename].deb
dpkg -i /home/user/deb_files/firefox-l10n-nl_37.0%7elinuxmint1%2bbetsy_amd64.deb    (The language file you downloaded)

• Right click on: and select properties
• Click on the plus sign button
• In the Search field type: about
• Click on: About Xfce
• Click on: Add
• Click on the About Xfce entry
• In the Name: field replace About Xfce with Firefox
• In the Comment: field remove what is there and leave it blank or enter some text of your choosing
• In the Command: field enter /opt/firefox/firefox %u
• In the Working directory: field enter /opt/firefox or leave it empty
• Click on the icon next to Icon:
• Choose /opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png and click Ok
• Select Options: Use startup notification
• Unselect Options: Run in terminal
• Click the Save button
• Move Firefox to the top of the list using the green arrowkeys on the right
• Click on the Advanced tab
• Make sure the first three items are not selected
• Click on the Close button

When you want to be able to start different profiles from the panel use, one per profile

/opt/firefox/firefox -P "profilename" -no-remote

for the panel button

Turn DNS over HTTPS off. This runs via Cloudflare which is an US based company. So there is a privacy issue
Go to:

• about:preferences#general
• Scroll down to Network Settings
• Click on the Settings… button
• Uncheck Enable DNS over HTTPS

See also Firefox DNS over HTTPS on the Mozilla website and How to enable dns over https doh in firefox on ZDnet

See Customizing Firefox Using policies.json
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More info:
Using the Debian alternatives system
Setting the default browser when update-alternatives fails
After installing Opera as a secondary browser it kept being the primary browser. After checking in

Firefox Edit | Preferences | Item: Advanced | Tab: General

we found that the mark was set to ON:

Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup

and Firefox mentioned:

Firefox is currently your default browser

in fact Firefox was NOT the default browser, not even after restarting Firefox.
For Linux Mint LMDE and Debian the solution is (from the Mozilla website: If you want to make Mozilla Firefox your default browser, point the symlink

/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser

to

/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

or other path where Mozilla Firefox is installed. You can find the location of Firefox by executing:

whereis firefox

One easy way to do this is to execute the following command as root:

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Doing so will present you with a list of installed browsers from which you can select Firefox. With

update-alternatives

you can set all kinds of default links. From the manpage:

update-alternatives  creates, removes, maintains and displays information
about the symbolic links comprising the Debian alternatives system.

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