How to Install Firefox Nightly x86_64 on Linux Mint 14 Nadia Cinnamon 64-bit Easy Visual-Guide

February 3, 2013 | By Regaz | Filed in: Uncategorized.

How to Install Firefox Nightly on Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon

The Guide shows you How to Install Firefox Nightly Browser x8664 for Linux Mint 14 Nadia Cinnamon 64-bit Desktop.

The Firefox Nightly Version can Coexist with the Others Firefox Versions without Troubles, this Mean that Once Fired Up it Will Just Load the Default Firefox Environment.

More than this once installed it will Plug-In the Firefox Nightly Channel and so will follow to be Automatically Updated.

With Firefox Nightly you can get a sneak peek at the next generation Web Browser, and help Mozilla to make the best Browser it can be.

Especially relevant: Nightly is an Unstable Testing and Development Platform.

Inside you find also detailed instructions about How to Create a Launcher for the Firefox Nightly Browser on Linux Mint Desktop.

Firefox Nightly & Linux Mint

  1. Download Latest Firefox Nightly:

    Firefox x8664 tar.bz2

  2. Find and Double-Click on the Archive and Extract Into /tmp

    Install Firefox on Linux Mint 20 Extraction

  3. Open a Terminal Window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon Open Terminal

  4. Relocate Firefox Nightly

    Login as SuperUser.

    su 

    If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

    mkdir -p /opt/firefox

    Move the Firefox Directory 

    sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/firefox && mv /tmp/firefox /opt/firefox/nightly

    Adding Nightly to the System Path by a Symlink 

    ln -s /opt/firefox/nightly/firefox /usr/local/bin/nightly

    Next you Can Start Firefox from Terminal Simply with 

    nightly

  5. Create a Firefox Nigthly App Launcher for Easy&Quick Starting:

    Cinnamon App Launcher How-to

    6. How to Install Google-Chrome Web Browser for Linux-Mint:

    Install Google-Chrome for Mint
About Firefox Nightly

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