Mozilla just released the official .rpm package for Firefox Nightly, the browser’s development version. Great news if you’re running Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, CentOS, or Rocky Linux.

The official Mozilla packages bring some real benefits to the table. First off, better performance thanks to advanced optimizations during compilation. Then there’s security: binaries are compiled with all protection flags enabled. Updates also arrive faster since they’re now baked directly into Firefox’s release process.

Another handy detail: the package won’t clash with your stable Firefox installation. You can keep both versions running side by side without any issues.

As Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly blog reports, the company already introduced .deb packages for Debian-based distributions back in 2023. With RPM support now available, Mozilla’s covered pretty much all major Linux distribution families.

If you want to give it a try, installation instructions are available directly on Mozilla’s blog, with specific commands for each distribution.