desktop file and modeled the aforementioned after that. As my laptop running Arch Linux was just fine, I went through I ended up running though a bunch of other blog posts and tried their. desktop file I hadĬreated for my Firefox Quantum install and it just wouldn’t act as desired. To circle back on the issue I was having. Should start showing up on the GNOME app menu. That’s all there is to it! After a moment or two Firefox Developer Edition local/ firefox- developer- edition/ firefox - private- window % u Name= New Private Window Exec=/ home/ YOURUSERNAME/. local/ firefox- developer- edition/ firefox - new- window % u Name= New Window Exec=/ home/ YOURUSERNAME/. StartupNotify= true StartupWMClass= Firefox Developer Edition Categories= Network WebBrowser Īctions= new- window new- private- window xul+ xml application/ rss+ xml application/ rdf+ xml image/ gif image/ jpeg image/ png x- scheme- handler/ http x- scheme- handler/ https Firefox Developer Edition features the latest changes and development tools you need to build for the web. png Terminal= false Type= Application MimeType= text/ html text/ xml application/ xhtml+ xml application/ xml application/ vnd. local/ firefox- developer- edition/ browser/ chrome/ icons/ default/ default128. local/ firefox- developer- edition/ firefox % u Icon=/ home/ YOURUSERNAME/. 0 Name= Firefox Developer Edition GenericName= Web Browser Comment= Browse the Web Exec=/ home/ YOURUSERNAME/. If you put the extracted directory somewhere else, you’ll In that file you will put the following, making sure to swap out YOURUSERNAMEįor your username. Open up $HOME/.local/share/applications/sktop with Said file can be placed in $HOME/.local/share/applications. To get GNOME to pick up on your newly installed Firefox, you will need to create That’s all well and good but having it show up on Now that that’s extracted, you could very well just run the firefox binaryīy double-clicking on it. I do run the plain Jane version of Firefox as well. It in $HOME/.local and rename the directory to firefox-developer-edition as You can extract the firefox directory where ever you’d like. That will get you a file named something like 2 that canĮasily be opened and extracted with GNOME’s Archive Manager. Oh wait, I was going to tell you how to get Firefox Developer Edition installed!įirst thing you’ll want to do is download Firefox Quantum: Developer Through my top apps fast as hell and this issue was more than enough to keep meįrom switching to Firefox if I couldn’t get it resolved. Thing is, AppKeys is one of my favorite productivity boosters. Pulling up the application list and right-clicking did yield the add toįavorites option, but even with it pinned, my favorite extension wouldĪppKeys would simply open a new browser each time instead of Tried dragging it to add as a favorite, no dice. Start up the Fox, right-click the app in the dash and there was no option to add Running Debian 9 (Stretch) I had issues with being able to pin Firefox as one of The installation on Arch was a piece of cake (as expected) but on my iMac Nightly on my phone, and Developer Edition on my computers. Haven’t said much about it, but I’ve recently moved back to Firefox on all of myĭevices.
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