![]() If you haven't already installed snapd, run sudo apt install snapd Mozilla provides an official Snap package for Firefox: Since the KeePassXC's socket has been renamed in KeePassXC 2.6, for this version you need to tweak the solution as described in comment #3 A workaround for KeePassXC is described in the Flathub forum. Therefore, add-ons which rely on it such as KeePassXC Browser don't work. If you want to use your Firefox flatpak as the default DebianAlternatives browser ( x-200 & sudo update-alternatives -set x-Flatpaks don't support native messaging. If you have added /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin to your PATH, you can also run it with the command If you haven't already set up flatpak, run sudo apt install flatpakįlatpak remote-add -if-not-exists flathub Mozilla provides an official FlatPak at FlatHub. If you want to use your manually installed Firefox as the default DebianAlternatives browser ( x-www-browser), run sudo update-alternatives -install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser /opt/firefox/firefox 200 & sudo update-alternatives -set x-www-browser /opt/firefox/firefox For example: sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox If you want to be able to launch Firefox from a CommandLineInterface, create a symlink to the firefox executable in /usr/local/bin/. ![]() Replace /opt/firefox with the path to the directory where you extracted the archive. MimeType=text/html text/xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml application/+xml application/rss+xml application/rdf+xml image/gif image/jpeg image/png x-scheme-handler/http x-scheme-handler/https Įxec=/opt/firefox/firefox -private-window %u Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png In the ~/.local/share/applications directory (install only for the current user) In the /usr/share/applications directory (system-wide installation - requires Root privileges) in your home directory (install only for the current user)Ĭreate a file sktop (replace stable with beta or nightly if needed) with the contents below:.In the /opt directory (system-wide installation - requires Root privileges) Download the Firefox version you want directly from the official website.Mozilla distributes ready-to-use Firefox binaries for Linux on their website: On DebianUnstable, to install the Release version of Firefox, install the firefox package. Support for languages other than English is available in packages named firefox-esr-l10n*. They are instead supported for more than a year, updating with major security or stability fixes. ESRs are not updated with new features every six weeks. This installs the Extended Support Release of Firefox. On DebianStable, Install the firefox-esr package. Migrating from Debian's Firefox to Upstream's.Otherwise, Firefox is installed with user access so I can update it as if it were a Windows or MacOS application and that is useful given that there are frequent new releases. Some may decry this but there are some local websites on my machine that need attention at times. Within Firefox itself, I opted to turn off warnings about password logins on non-https websites by going to about:config using the address bar, then looking for security.insecure_field_ and changing its value from True to False. Once this was completed, there was nothing else to do from the operating system side. gconf/apps/docky-2/Docky/Interface/DockPreferences/%gconf.xml where I found the location of the sktop that needed changing. local/share/applications/ within my user area to get the right icon shown. The former was sorted using the cinnamon-menu-editor command but the latter needed some tinkering with my sktop file found in. Where things got a bit more complicated was getting entries added to the Cinnamon Menu and Docky. With the above completed, it was simple to install Firefox Developer edition using the following command: Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make Installing this involves setting up a new PPA as the first step and the following commands added the software to my system: Installation takes a little added effort though and there are various options available. It is speedy too, which helps, and it has its own profile so it can co-exist on the same machine as regular releases of Firefox like its ESR and Quantum variants. ![]() Hopefully, someone will create an equivalent of the old add-on bar extensions that worked before the release of Firefox Quantum.įirefox Developer Edition may be pre-release software with some extras for web developers like being able to to drill into an HTML element and see its properties but I am finding it stable enough for everyday use. Having moved beyond the slow response and larger memory footprint of Firefox ESR, I am using Firefox Developer Edition in its place even if it means living without a status bar at the bottom of the window. Installing Firefox Developer Edition in Linux Mint 22nd April 2018 ![]()
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