diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
index 0f57ddefe1694..e8deb9fcd9cc7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
@@ -471,6 +471,8 @@ buildStdenv.mkDerivation ({
   separateDebugInfo = enableDebugSymbols;
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = if (with stdenv; isAarch64 && isLinux) then [ "-lgcc" ] else null;
+
   # tests were disabled in configureFlags
   doCheck = false;