These are directions to install latest firefox on a debian based-distro, rather

than waiting for it to appear in a repository.

Steps.
0.) install firefox from Debian's repository
1.) download tarbal .tar.bz2 file
2.) make a new directory to extract the tarball file into. A common location is the
/opt filesystem.
3.) replace the existing binary file with a symbolic link to the new tarball
4.) when you want to update to an even newer version of firefox, simply extract
contents of downloaded tarbal to /opt/firefox, the directory you create in step 2.

Step 0. (

if you don't already have firefox installed, install it from Debian repository
first. As root type the following in the command line

# apt install firefox-esr

note also, if for some reason the name of the package "firefox-esr" changes in the
future do an apt search for firefox

#apt search firefox

that will show a listing of bunch of stuff that is available in Debians repository

Step 1.

go to Mozilla download page and save the linux .tar.bz2 file to a location of your
choosing.

if you wish to use it, a direct link for the tarball file is shown below, either
way it will work:

https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US

Step 2

as root make a new directory in the /opt filesystem

# mkdir /opt/firefox

Step 3

make a backup of the orig firefox-esr, then (symbolically) link the newest firefox
to the location of the firefox-esr

# mv /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_orig
# ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr

Step 4

later when you see newer updates of firefox, simply re-download the newest tarball
file from Mozilla then extrac its contents into /opt/firefox
as root

# tar xjf FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 -C /opt/firefox