How to install firefox developer edition using terminal?

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There are many similar questions out there but none of them have mentioned any installation process using terminal. Please give some hint, what are the command line to download Firefox developer edition directly.

Apart from these whenever I download from web, it does not appear in my desktop or app menu. I have to go to the file then it is working.

Help!! Thanks.

Does this answer your question? How to install Firefox as a traditional deb package (without snap) in Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) There are answers in this that assume it's all from CLI/command line — guiverc, Jul 13 '22 at 02:25
There are LOTS of installation tutorials that use the terminal. Perhaps you really want a tutorial that doesn't use a package manager, but tells you how to install the upstream binary yourself manually. Or perhaps you want something else; it's not clear. — user535733, Jul 13 '22 at 03:24
Try this https://dev.to/harrsh2124/how-to-setup-firefox-developer-edition-on-ubuntu-4inp, I had it done for Ubuntu 20.04.Maybe it is different from 22.04, because in 22.04 they are using snap to install firefox — imingame, Jul 13 '22 at 03:08
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! I notice that you have this tagged [tag:windows-subsystem-for-linux], but you don't mention that anywhere in your question. Are you really using WSL? If so, please edit your question to include that information, including Windows version. Thanks! — NotTheDr01ds, Jul 13 '22 at 04:16
Does this answer your question? How do I install the Firefox Developer Edition? Here is the answer that I linked to. — karel, Jul 27 '22 at 01:33

vanadium · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-13T06:58:48.650

Apart from options to install Firefox using the Debian APT system, i.e. as a .deb package, you can install from mozilla builds. Using the terminal only, the process can go like:

wget -O FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-devedition-latest-ssl&os=linux64
sudo tar xvf FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 -C /opt/

This will install the files in /opt/firefox. If you want a different folder, e.g. firefox-devedition then you can instead extract the files locally, and move/rename the extracted directory firefox:

tar xvf FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2
sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox-devedition

You can determine the URL for the product you need by selecting your product on the Firefox downloads page. Then right-click the Download button to copy the link.

To add a launcher in your menu system, see this answer.

How to install firefox developer edition using terminal?

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