I spent Two Weeks trying to solve the mystery of running 3-editions of Firefox at once. I solved it finally and wanted to share this with you :
Here are screenshots of 3-firefox running side-by-side :
Stable: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images...b03dee34c8.png
Dev: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images...757f1d4e95.png
Nightly: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images...5acd5a6213.png
How to do this ?
1> Stable: It will be come pre-installed in most Linux Distro's and no need to install it if it's not already available install it using
Code:
sudo apt install firefox
2> Developer Edition: Go ahead to this site and download the .tar.bz2 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
Now go to the downloads folder and extract the tar
Code:
tar xvjf name.tar.bz2
Go into the extracted folder Run firefox-dev By default firefox developers edition uses a differnt profile so no need to alter anything.
Download a cool icon for Firefox Developer Edition Place it inside firefox folder which was downloaded
Create a .desktop file for Quick-launch
firefox-dev.desktop
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox Developer
GenericName=Firefox Developer Edition
Exec=/home/username/Downloads/firefox-dev/firefox
Terminal=false
Icon=/home/username/Downloads/firefox-dev/iconname.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;X-Developer;
Comment=Firefox Developer Edition Web Browser
Place .desktop file that you created in this path
Code:
/home/username/.local/share/applications
And now your unity search will show firefox-dev edition and you can go ahead and open it and pin it to launcher.
3> Nightly: Use to add nightly ppa repo
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
Code:
sudo apt-get update
Code:
sudo apt install firefox-trunk
Nightly will be installed with a different profile and location than firefox-stable and you can use both side-by-side
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