Occasionally this may be useful.  


Acquire a root shell via   sudo su - root   then copy and paste the lines 

below en-masse.  It is basically a script.



cd ~/Downloads

curl -L -o firefox.dmg "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=osx&lang=en-US" 

hdiutil attach firefox.dmg

rm -rf /Applications/Firefox.app

sleep 2

ditto /Volumes/Firefox/Firefox.app /Applications/Firefox.app

rm -f firefox.dmg

hdiutil detach /Volumes/Firefox