Creating shortcut and separate icon for FF Nightly

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I followed the walk through here, but I’m stuck at #5. I’ve found the executable firefox, but don’t know how to create the shortcut. I’m using Gnome if that makes a difference.

Also, I opened Firefox Nightly, however, in the dock it uses Firefox’s regular orange icon, how can I change that?

Thanks.

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Desktop icons are text files and are created/edited by hand.

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A few posts down in the thread you mention is an example .desktop file.

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I have it installed manually and manually update directly from mozilla. Here is mine, which you would have to edit with a text editor. I have mine in /home/my user name/.local/share/applications/ I would think that yours should be in /usr/share/applications if you installed via pamac. In xfce panel, you can create a launcher, point to the executable and chose an icon from the firefox nightly installation in firefox nightly/browser/chrome/icons/default/ I am not a gnome user so I cannot comment on how to achieve this in gnome.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Firefox Nightly
Comment=
Exec='/home/my user name/Software/firefox nightly/firefox'
Icon=/home/my user name/Software/firefox nightly/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
Path=/home/my user name/Software/firefox nightly
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
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Thank you.

I was able to find it opens as Firefox Nightly, but uses the regular FF instance and regular FF icon. I cannot get it to be a standalone instance. Any ideas?

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Check associations in mimeapps.list located in /home/your user name/.config/

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have it open…what do I do about it? :slight_smile:

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Is ff nightly set as default browser in ff settings? As far as mimeapps.list you can check for file types that you want to open with nightly e.g. htm, HTML etc

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Do these actually work with the spaces in them? Especially the unquoted ones?

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yes my user name=jrichard if that is what you are talking about, I just put my user etc for demonstration purposes. If I click on the .desktop file in local/applications, I get the untrusted warning, launch anyway, blah , blah, but it works.

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I more meant that. but hey, as you say, if it works :woman_shrugging:

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yep that is how I set the folder up for the manual installation firefox nightly, no underscore. I know it goes against convention, but works anyway.