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layout: post
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title: "Manual Firefox install on Debian"
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date: 2019-05-11 15:26:15 +0200
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comments: true
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categories:
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---
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# Install downloaded archive
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Download and unpack archive under `/opt`. Note: top level directory
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in archive is `firefox`, does not contain version.
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# Creating a GNOME launcher
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From https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox:
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```plain /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
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[Desktop Entry]
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Name=Firefox ''Your version''
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Comment=Web Browser
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GenericName=Web Browser
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X-GNOME-FullName=Firefox ''Your version'' Web Browser
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Exec=/path/to/firefox/firefox %u
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Terminal=false
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X-MultipleArgs=false
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Type=Application
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Icon=/path/to/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
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Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
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MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
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StartupWMClass=Firefox
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StartupNotify=true
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```
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# Setting it as default
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See [previous post]({% post_url 2017-10-11-chaging-default-browser-for-gnome-on-debian %}).
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