Do you want to install and use Firefox Developer Edition on your Ubuntu and don’t know how to go about it?! If your answer is yes, then this article is for you. Am sure you’ve seen some documentations out there but in this one we will add Firefox Developer Edition to our Unity launcher. You’re welcome! 😉
Please follow the steps below…
Step 1
Download the firefox*.tar.bz2 file from Mozilla’s website.
Step 2
Open Terminal.
Step 3
Navigate to the folder where the file is saved.
Step 4
Copy firefox*.tar.bz2 file to the /opt folder.
sudo cp -rp firefox*.tar.bz2 /opt
Step 5
Delete the downloaded firefox*.tar.bz2 file.
sudo rm -rf firefox*.tar.bz2
Step 6
Navigate to the /opt directory.
cd ~
cd /opt
Step 7
Un-tar the firefox*.tar.bz2 file in opt folder.
sudo tar xjf firefox*.tar.bz2
Step 8
Delete the firefox*.tar.bz2 file in opt folder.
sudo rm -rf firefox*.tar.bz2
Step 9
Change ownership of the folder containing Firefox Developer Edition /opt/firefox
sudo chown -R $USER /opt/firefox
Step 10
Create the Firefox Developer Edition's shortcut
nano ~/.local/share/applications/firefox_dev.desktop
The content of this file is,
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox Developer
GenericName=Firefox Developer Edition
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox %u
Terminal=false
Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;X-Developer;
Comment=Firefox Developer Edition Web Browser.
StartupWMClass=Firefox Developer Edition
Step 10
Mark the launcher as trusted and make it executable.
chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/firefox_dev.desktop
I hope this article has helped you to set-up your new Firefox Developer Edition.
Thank you
Discussion (8)
Thanks. worked fine for me .Kubuntu 20.02
Brother you have any idea how to uninstall that?
I think u can just delete the firefox..bz2 file in opt folder
Thank you for posting this, just a quick note: you do not need to
chown
the directory in/opt/
Thanks Guy.
Thank You So much .....
Thanks a lot brother. It Worked perfectly on ubuntu 20.04.
Thank you so much.