How to Install Firefox Developer Edition on Ubuntu, Debian and LinuxMint

    RahulBy 1 Min ReadUpdated:

    Firefox Developer Edition is also known as Firefox Aurora. Firefox Developer Edition is very useful for web developers. This edition of Firefox is available for most of operating systems like Windows, Linux, and MAC OS

    1. Download Firefox Developer Edition

    First, visit Mozilla Firefox official website and download latest developer edition of Mozilla.

    2. Extract Archive File

    Now extract downloaded firefox developer edition archive file on /opt or /usr/local directory. For example I have extracted all files under directory firefox_dev in /usr/local .

    $ tar xjf firefox-53.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
$ sudo mv firefox /usr/local/firefox_dev

    3. Create Desktop Menu

    After copying all files at /usr/local/firefox_dev folder. Lets create file ~/.local/share/applications/firefox_dev.desktop to create launcher on your system for Firefox developer edition. These enties may be changed as per your desktop edition.

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox Developer
GenericName=Firefox Developer Edition
Exec=/usr/local/firefox_dev/firefox
Terminal=false
Icon=/usr/local/firefox_dev/browser/icons/mozicon128.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;X-Developer;
Comment=Firefox Developer Edition Web Browser.

    4. Launch Firefox Developer

    Finally launch your Firefox developer edition by clicking launcher icon or your can start it directly with binary script.

    $ /usr/local/firefox_dev
$ ./firefox &

    firefox-developer-edition

    And you have successfully installed firefox developer edition on your system. Let’s enjoy development with developer version.

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    3 Comments

    1. Martin on

      I could install it with the proposed modification. Yet it always opened a new tab with the following address:
      http://www.xn--class=firefoxdev-bg6i.com/
      No idea what this is, and I just really understand well a 25% of the proposed solution code. Yet I just changed the ” –'” in ” –class=firefoxdev” for a ” –” (as I haven’t seen the previous before) and now it is working normally, without the annoying tab…
      So the final exec line is:
      Exec=/usr/local/firefox_dev/firefox –class=firefoxdev

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    2. Oleg on

      Thank you for good article!

      Some changes appeared in firefox_dev.desktop file:
      Icon=/usr/local/firefox_dev/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png

      Hope it will help somebody)

      Reply
    3. Jelle De Loecker on

      I add ” –class=firefoxdev” to the exec command, otherwise Gnome Shell will still group it together with regular Firefox

      Reply

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