diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
index 341c1c198903e..89af3d397bec6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
@@ -474,6 +474,8 @@ buildStdenv.mkDerivation ({
   separateDebugInfo = enableDebugSymbols;
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = if (with stdenv; isAarch64 && isLinux) then [ "-lgcc" ] else null;
+
   # tests were disabled in configureFlags
   doCheck = false;