"If you can't wait to get the bleeding-edge version of Firefox, we have good news. Mozilla is offering native RPM packages of Firefox Nightly for Linux distros in the greater Red Hat and SUSE families. Mozilla's Firefox remains the dominant browser in the worlds of Linux and the BSDs - and now the company has started offering native RPM packages of the development version, known as Firefox Nightly. This makes it easy to install Firefox directly from Mozilla onto distros that use RPM packages, including the Red Hat, SUSE, and Mandriva families."
"While Mozilla has traditionally offered native Linux binaries for Firefox, until recently, it delivered them in the form of a tarball. In other words, this is the Unix equivalent of a Zip file, which you must manually uncompress somewhere and run, as opposed to packaged software that can be installed or removed with any particular distro's packaging tools. Tarballs have a number of drawbacks compared to native packages, not least that their use requires more Linux competence than many a container-slinging Kubernetes contraption-captain can muster."
Mozilla now supplies native RPM packages of Firefox Nightly for Linux distributions in the Red Hat, SUSE, and Mandriva families. Previously, official Linux Firefox binaries were distributed as tarballs that users must manually uncompress and run rather than install through a distro package manager. Tarballs are not managed by the OS package manager, so they do not update with the system and require more Linux competence to use, though Firefox installed this way often updates itself. Native RPM packages integrate with the OS, appear in app launchers with proper icons, and simplify setting defaults.
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