Thursday, February 7, 2013

How-to Install Firefox 23 Nightly x86_64 on Linux Mint 14 Nadia Xfce 64bit Easy Visual-Guide

The Guide Show How-to Install Firefox Nightly 23 Browser x86_64 on Linux Mint 14 Nadia Xfce 64bit 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 Like Every Other Firefox Version in the Future will Follow to be Automatically Updated to the Newest Firefox Nightly Release. So it is Not a Wasting Time because You Install It Once and Keep Forever Freshly Updated :)

 

Inside the Instructions you will Find also a Link to How-to Create a Launcher for the Firefox Nightly Browser on Linux Mint Desktop.

Firefox Nightly & Linux Mint

  1. Download Latest Firefox Nightly:

    Firefox 23 x86_64 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
    Linux Mint 13-14 Maya Xfce Open Terminal
  4. Relocate Firefox

    Login as SuperUser

    su
    mkdir -p /opt/firefox
    Move the Firefox Directory
    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:

    Mint-Xfce App Launcher Howto
  6. How-to Install Google-Chrome Browser for Linux-Mint:

    Install Google-Chrome for Mint
About Firefox Nightly