Difference between revisions of "Mozilla Firefox"

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create an firefox.desktop file and edit it:

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.)

(~~every~~ file name beginning with a <code>.</code> is a hidden file)

(Every file name beginning with a <code>.</code> is a hidden file)

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~~this~~ method works for firefox-beta, firefox-aurora, and firefox-nightly, 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.

This method works for firefox-beta, firefox-aurora, and firefox-nightly, 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.

~~this~~ post is based on the following sources:

This post is based on the following sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLon1m3vl0

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~~there~~ is a forum entry for this post: https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=16246.0

There is a forum entry for this post: https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=16246.0

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 create an firefox.desktop file and edit it:
   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.)
-(every file name beginning with a <code>.</code> is a hidden file)
+(Every file name beginning with a <code>.</code> is a hidden file)
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-this method works for firefox-beta, firefox-aurora, and firefox-nightly, 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.
+This method works for firefox-beta, firefox-aurora, and firefox-nightly, 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.
-this post is based on the following sources:
+This post is based on the following sources:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLon1m3vl0
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-there is a forum entry for this post: https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=16246.0
+There is a forum entry for this post: https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=16246.0