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Open Terminal
Ctrl+Alt+T
Download Firefox Developer Editiontar file
wget https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-aurora-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US
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Copy tar file to
opt
sudo cp -rp firefox-35.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
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Open
opt
folder (cd /opt/
) and untar filesudo tar xjf firefox-35.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
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Delete tar file
sudo rm -rf firefox-35.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
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Now create new icon for Firefox Developer Edition browser.
sudo chown -R $USER /opt/firefox
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Open
nano ~/.bashrc
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Go to the end of file and paste this line:
export PATH=/opt/firefox/firefox:$PATH
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The last thing we need to do is to create launcher for Unity.
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop
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Paste the lines below into it:
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Firefox Developer Edition GenericName=Web Browser Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox Terminal=false Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.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
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Copy icon to Desktop
cp -rp /usr/share/applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop /home/$USER/Desktop
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Do run enable
chmod +x FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop
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Go Desktop and click Firefox Developer Edition 😄
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Save toklok/80a98691384a0dbcbc5f1dd3ceec8145 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
How To install Firefox Developer Edition and create desktop icon for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
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