Installing Firefox Developer Edition on Ubuntu Linux

[EphraimK]

I actually found this to be a difficult process, so I decided to create a guide on it.

 

Firefox Developer Edition is a special version of the Firefox browser, specifically designed to help developers. 

 

 

What you need:

• The archive from Mozilla's Website
• An up-to-date Linux kernel

 

 

Installing: 

 

Make sure the archive is downloaded to your Downloads folder, and "cd" into the Downloads folder and extract the file with this command:

cd ~/Downloads
tar -xvf firefox*.tar.bz2

P.S. Replace the * with the downloaded archive's filename.

 

 

Before continuing, please reset terminal so you are no longer in the Downloads folder.

 

 

Now, using "sudo" for root privileges, move the folder to the "opt" folder, replacing the asterisks and the word "username" with your computer's username.  

sudo mv /home/*username*/Downloads/firefox /opt

 

 

 

Now we need to set up the binary, so we can actually launch the browser.

To set it up, we need to create a symlink from the opt/firefox/  folder to the /usr/local/bin/ folder with the ln command.

ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox

 

 

 

Now, let's create a shortcut, using the touch command.

sudo touch /usr/share/applications/firefox-developer.desktop

 

 

 

With the file created, we need to edit it.

 

To open the file, navigate to:

usr/share/applications/firefox-developer.desktop

 

Open it in a text editor and copy the following code into the file:

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Firefox Developer

GenericName=Firefox Developer Edition

Exec=/usr/local/bin/firefox

Terminal=false

Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png

Type=Application

Categories=Application;Network;X-Developer;

Comment=Firefox Developer Edition Web Browser

 

Save the file (usually requires another text editor, such as Sublime Text or Nano)

and update the permissions of the file using the terminal again:

sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/firefox-developer.desktop

 

 

Now you can access the Firefox Developer browser from your applications menu!

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