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If you are downloading the tarball from Mozilla, then you are affected by this telemetry:

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...

I don't think that's the case; the telemetry is part of the installer, not the installed binary (that the tarball would contain)

The article says the download id is transmitted to Mozilla on first run, so it must be part of the installed binary?

However, the article does say the Mozilla FTP site doesn't have the download id.

Yeah it can. The only problem is my home directory is not on SSD and it takes long time to load Firefox from regular HDD.

I believe the 'proper' place to install it would be /opt. You can then give yourself edit permissions for the firefox directory so that firefox is capable of upgrading itself when you run it.

Yep- this. And put a symlink to it. Then you can quickly switch versions to nightly or whatever you need.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is an option on aarch64 Linux.