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Firefox developer edition

chose other install way

  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

  5. Now create new icon for Firefox Developer Edition browser. sudo chown -R $USER /opt/firefox

  6. Open nano ~/.bashrc

  7. Go to the end of file and paste this line: export PATH=/opt/firefox/firefox:$PATH

  8. The last thing we need to do is to create launcher for Unity. sudo nano /usr/share/applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop

  9. 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
  10. Copy icon to Desktop cp -rp /usr/share/applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop /home/$USER/Desktop

  11. Do run enable chmod +x FirefoxDeveloperEdition.desktop

  12. Go Desktop and click Firefox Developer Edition 😄

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