Difference between revisions of "Mozilla Firefox"
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This is the default path this wiki page will use in the continuation of this tutorial. When you want to use other file paths you have to adjust this tutorial, too. An alternate file path of your home directory is the following (please replace <YourAccountNameHere> with your account name): | This is the default path this wiki page will use in the continuation of this tutorial. When you want to use other file paths you have to adjust this tutorial, too. An alternate file path of your home directory is the following (please replace <YourAccountNameHere> with your account name): | ||
/home/<YourAccountNameHere>/bin/ | /home/'''<YourAccountNameHere>'''/bin/ | ||
If a <code>bin</code> folder in your <code>home directory</code> does not exist, create it. | If a <code>bin</code> folder in your <code>home directory</code> does not exist, create it. | ||
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'''4.''' Let's create an icon in order to start Firefox much more easily: | '''4.''' Let's create an icon in order to start Firefox much more easily: | ||
create an firefox.desktop file and edit it: | create an firefox.desktop file and edit it: | ||
sudo kwrite ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop | sudo '''kwrite''' ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop | ||
(Instead of <code>kwrite</code>, use your preferred text editor: e.g. leafpad, gedit, mousepad, juffed, etc.) | (Instead of <code>kwrite</code>, use your preferred text editor: e.g. leafpad, gedit, mousepad, juffed, etc.) | ||
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=More= | =More= | ||
This method works for [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/all/ firefox-beta]and [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/all/ firefox-aurora], too. | This method works for [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/all/ firefox-beta]and [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/all/ firefox-aurora] (The aurora channel got replaced with [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ Firefox Developer Edition] recently), too. Unfortunately, Firefox' own updater does not update to the next major version (e.g. from Firefox 33.0 to Firefox 34.0) for all these pre-stable releases of Firefox. The next major version needs to be downloaded and unpacked/extracted manually every time a new major update of Firefox is released. | ||
'''Edit:''' Sometimes, the update to the next major version works, but with a slight delay. Please test for yourself. | |||
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More Tips about Firefox [https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Internet_Browsers here] | More Tips about Firefox in the Manjaro Wiki are available [https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Internet_Browsers here] | ||