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    Firefox Developer Edition (or any edition), separate Unity launcher icon (Ubuntu 14.04)
  
        
  
    
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  | [Desktop Entry] | |
| Encoding=UTF-8 | |
| Version=1.0 | |
| Type=Application | |
| Name=Firefox Developer Edition | |
| Icon=/home/user/Apps/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png | |
| Path=/home/user/Apps/firefox | |
| Exec=/home/user/Apps/firefox/firefox --class="firefox-developer" -P dev-edition-default %u | |
| StartupNotify=true | |
| StartupWMClass=firefox-developer | |
| X-UnityGenerated=false | |
| Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow; | |
| Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser; | |
| Terminal=false | |
| MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall; | |
| [Desktop Action NewWindow] | |
| Name=Open a New Window | |
| Path=/home/user/Apps/firefox | |
| Exec=/home/user/Apps/firefox/firefox -new-window --class="firefox-developer" -P dev-edition-default | |
| OnlyShowIn=Unity; | |
| [Desktop Action NewPrivateWindow] | |
| Name=Open a New Private Window | |
| Path=/home/user/Apps/firefox | |
| Exec=/home/user/Apps/firefox/firefox -private-window --class="firefox-developer" | |
| OnlyShowIn=Unity; | |
| # Change paths to match your username and location of firefox edition | |
| # TODO: fix icon size :) | |
| # To see shortcut in dash, relogin | 
When i click open new window. It opens new tab with http://www.dev-edition-default.com/ address which leads to nowhere.
  
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Apologize. Restart fixed it.