How To Install Firefox Developer Edition and create desktop icon

firefox-developer-edition.md

Download

Source to download: link

Install

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1. Open Terminal Ctrl+Alt+T Download Firefox Developer Edition tar file

$ wget https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-aurora-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US

2. Copy tar file to opt

$ sudo cp -rp firefox-35.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

3. Open opt folder (cd /opt/) and untar file

$ sudo tar xjf firefox-35.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

4. Delete tar file

$ sudo rm -rf firefox-35.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Create icon

1. Now create new icon for Firefox Developer Edition browser:

    $ sudo chown -R $USER /usr/bin/firefox-dev/
   

2. Open nano ~/.bashrc

3. Go to the end of file and paste this line:

   export PATH=/usr/bin/firefox-dev/firefox:$PATH

4. The last thing we need to do is to create launcher for Unity.

    $ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop
   

5. Paste the lines below into it:

   [Desktop Entry]
   Version=1.0
   Name=Firefox Developer Edition
   GenericName=Web Browser
   Exec=/usr/bin/firefox-dev/firefox
   Terminal=false
   Icon=/usr/bin/firefox-dev/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
   Type=Application
   Categories=Network;WebBrowser;Favorites;
   MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
   X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;NewIncognito

6. Copy icon to Desktop

    $ cp -rp /usr/share/applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop /home/$USER/Desktop
   

7. Do run enable

    $ chmod +x /home/$USER/Desktop/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop
   

8. Go Desktop and click Firefox Developer Edition 🏁