How To install Firefox Developer Edition and create desktop icon for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

firefox-developer-edition.md

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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

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 😄