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Context
On 18.04, firefox came preinstalled. On top of that, I installed Firefox Developer Edition. The latter is set as my default web-browser.

I don't use regular firefox at all, but I don't want to remove it as I fear it might brake something somewhere.

Problem
When I run firefox in my CLI, a new instance of regular-firefox is started.

Question
How to open Firefox Developer Edition using command line?

ebosi
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    Then try /opt/firefox_dev/firefox. Also how did you install it actually? (the location of the executable depends on that) – pomsky Jun 25 '18 at 16:24

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As hinted by pomsky, the path of the executable file is /opt/firefox_dev/firefox. I then just had to create a personalized bash alias (e.g., alias ff-dev='/opt/firefox_dev/firefox').

Note that this problem may be due to the fact I installed Firefox Web Developer from an archive (downloaded on Mozilla's website). So I then needed to to manually create the firefox_dev.desktop file — see Firefox developer desktop icon is missing and Firefox developer edition icon duplication in Gnome shell.

ebosi
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In my case (Ubuntu 18.04): firefox launches regular firefox firefox-developer launches firefox dev edition

Thony
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