Recent changes with how Firefox uses its profiles has meant I’ve now uninstalled the stable release of Firefox I had installed with my package manager.

The other motivation to get Firefox Nightly to play nice with GNOME was the new nightly logo.

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To install Firefox Nightly I donwloaded the latest release and extracted it to /opt/firefox. I then made the firefox folder owned by my user account so firefox could update itself. GNOME uses .desktop files to populate its launcher and dock. I created this file and saved it to ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Firefox
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Actions=PrivateMode;SafeMode;ProfileManager;

[Desktop Action PrivateMode]
Name=Private Mode
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox --private-window %u

[Desktop Action SafeMode]
Name=Safe Mode
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox --safe-mode

[Desktop Action ProfileManager]
Name=Profile Manager
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox --ProfileManager

Hopefully this useful to others.

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My name is Jonny Barnes, and jonnybarnes.uk is my site. I’m from Manchester, UK .

I am active to varying degrees on several silos:

I keep in touch with friends on Facebook
I follow people I find interesting on Twitter
I toot on the fediverse with my own instance of Mastodon
I push code to GitHub
I scrobble songs to last.fm that I listen to on Spotify or Apple Music
I post photos to Instagram

My usual online nickname is normally jonnybarnes for other services. I also syndicate my content to the IndieWeb friendly site micro.blog. Here’s a profile pic. You can email me at hi@jonnybarnes.uk, or message me on Matrix: @jonny:jonnybarnes.uk.