There is no need to add ~/bin to the PATH on Ubuntu: ~/bin and/or ~/.local/bin are added automatically upon next login when they exist. Prefer the latter one if you do not want a "bin" directory cluttering your home folder.

Personally I don't mind that canonical installs snap version of Firefox. What DOES bother me is that if you go "sudo apt install Firefox" it installs the snap version. The whole freaking point of using the command line is that I can tell the computer exactly what I want to do. Doing something different is, in my opinion a scummy thing to do. If you don't want to package the apt version then simply throw an error. Note that I recently switched to Firefox and had to do some playing around to force Ubuntu to install Firefox's version of the apt version.

I have installed Palemoon but I just unzipped the Tar file with Archive Manager, put the folder with all the program files, into user/share folder. Then created a link to Palemoon in the start menu and ran it. It's easier that way.

b.t.w., the PATH should not be set in ~/.bashrc (only loaded for an interactive terminal - this will not work in e.g. the Run prompt (Alt+F2) or for a command defined for a shortcut key), but in ~/.profile, which is run on log-in.

Love the wooden theme of the LLTVCave. Compliments the Edifiers really well. And, yeah, as always, great Linux content, too. :)

This is excellent, just did this to my system, Firefox starts up way faster now. Thanks a lot!

Awesome. Can you do one for Thunderbird too because I always use the tarballs of Firefox and Thunderbird. I used Menu Editor to create launchers for them on Debian Xfce so I could pin them on Xfce panel.

JAY my linux journey is all along with Learn Linux TV I request you to do window manager tips and tricks videos in addition to customization of distribution especially arch based

I have just done this with POPOS 22.04. However, I did use /.local/bin for the location of firefox.d, and amended firefox-desktop to this location. I had no issues with it running, it opens up faster and extensions with difficulties under those from the POPOS/Flatpack repository appear to work without issues. If you have Firefox Sync then all your passwords, extensions, etc are automatically installed once you log into your sync account. So if you don't currently use Firefox Sync I recommend that you do that before removing the original install. One other thing is that as .local/bin is already in your path via the ~.profile .

I think you didn't explain why you put a .d at the end of the folder's name.

On Ubuntu Mate Firefox snap version was very slow (1,2 or 3 seconds slower to start than direct install version from Mozilla site).

Love the new decor ! :D Thank you for the content as usual :D

Very well explained. Ubuntu is a fine distro. It is friendly to new users. My distro is Slackware. It is friendly to intermediate users.

There is no need to make a .desktop file in .local/share/applications executable.

Great tutorial, very clear and worked flawlessly, thank you…

Thank you! Will do this! Also, for ThinLinc.. seems really cool! Would u recommend using ThinLinc and maybe using a VPN to remote into your home PC from outside your network? Or is something like TeamViewer safer/more secure?

fun trivia, according to the xdg specifications ~/.local/bin is the reccommended path for binaries. most major distros include that in the defauft PATH nowadays

i like the new look of your studio!!!

Another great and clear video Jay. Thank you!

Awesome. Mind blowing. Thank you.

does the "$USER" variable not work in the .desktop file?

Change jay in the desktop link to $USER for ease of use between multiple users

Personally, I get to much delay when opening the already present Firefox in PopOS. Gonna give this direct method a try

I thouiht the video title is hinting to Firefox custom build deployment as software distribution and folder redirect of Microsoft active directory

What are the benefits of this beside avoiding snaps?

Do you have the blue light emission turned on? Everything looks washed out.

Did you record this with Night Light enabled? Looks distracting

@LearnLinuxTV how to auto update firefox. Without install latest version of firefox

Awesome Jay! Been thinking about going back to Firefox even with their drama. Kinda tired of Chrome these days. I do have a question? So what if someone is using firefox already and need to have all the setting from the old one. Does Firefox sync like Chrome. I have now use Firefox in years for no more than install Chrome... LOL Then one can uninstall the old one... I am going to use your method as it make sense on my system and it is straight from Firefox themselves... Thanks Jay! LLAP 🖖

When I extracted this on linux mint there was no second firefox folder when I double clicked it it showed all the contents.

I moved from Ubuntu to LMDE5....no snap packages. 🙂

Awesome vid Jay!

Sensei, I've been scouring. the internet for a clear guide on how to enable AMF encoding for OBS (or others) in debian based distros (mint, Ubuntu etc) do you have any ideas?

I've tried Snap firefox twice. Both time I was constantly aggravated by how bad wit was.

Please don't enable night mode next time. Everything seems sepia to me...

Don’t unsnap. Snaps are their own mount. You don’t get anything by using a native package over a snap. Snaps aren’t hard to manage.

I just left Ubuntu, that's the easiest way to unsnap Firefox

Or better yet, screw Mozilla and install LibreWolf, which is a hardened fork without the proprietary crap of Firefox.

this is how windows users install program download it original site and install no hassle. i thought this was download source and build it. removind butoons and stuff browser not need *LOL

Too bad the video is too long and unusable thanks though for me

Why would anyone want to get rid of SNAP? It’s the best thing about Linux.

Holy wow! you talk too much! Over 8 minutes in to the video and you STILL havn't done anything! You sure did show an ad tho didn't you!?

Just use a distribution without snap.

( are url forbidden in YT comments ? ) In a single human user context - working only from the relevant user session (so zero need for sudo, no system side mods): ⋅ unzip the standalone archive to a location in your $HOME (eg. ~/Software) and simply rename the resulting folder to firefox, ⋅ place in ~/.local/share/bin ( or ~/bin ) a symbolic link named firefox that targets the executable (eg /home//Software/firefox/firefox ) ⋅ create in ~/.local/share/applications a launcher named firefox.desktop Relaunch your session: you should find Firefox in your usual applications menu but do not launch it yet. In your desktop environment settings, find the equivalent of "Default Applications" and choose Firefox as your Internet Browser. Launch Firefox, answer "Later" to the question "Do you want to make Firefox your default browser?" then in its settings, uncheck "Always check that Firefox is your default browser" - we have already checked this via "Default applications" (otherwise on the one hand Firefox will ask you the question each time you launch it and on the other hand if you check it as the default browser from Firefox itself, it will create a second .desktop launcher with a random name, and add it as a duplicate in the mimeinfo.cache file. ) ____________________ In a multi-user context, it will be better to install this autonomous archive on the system side (therefore using sudo), e.g. in /opt/firefox with adequate management of rights and permissions so that the update mechanism can work from any session of any user member of the users group: ⋅ unzip the standalone archive in /opt and simply rename the resulting folder to firefox, ⋅ appropriate this firefox folder to root:users with rwXrwX--- rights, ⋅ make sure that all the contents of this folder have root:users as owners BUT that only the folders carry the sgid bit with rwXrwX--- rights via these 3 commands: sudo chown -R root:users /opt/firefox/ sudo chmod 2770 /opt/firefox find /opt/firefox/ -type d -exec sudo chmod 2770 {} \; # note: replace 2770 with 2775 if you want any user to be able to use this Firefox ; # only members of the users group will be able to initiate its update. ⋅ place in /usr/bin a symbolic link named firefox which targets the executable ( here /opt/firefox/firefox ) ⋅ create in /usr/share/applications a launcher named firefox.desktop This way only users who are members of the users group can see, use and update the Firefox contained in /opt/firefox, it is therefore imperative to add the concerned users to the users group via sudo adduser an_user users or via a graphical utility like "Users and Groups" (provided by gnome-system-tools). _____________________ The same remarks apply concerning the default choice of browser, which can be refined system wide with: sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox 100 and user's session side with: xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop _____________________ I've been doing this for months on many installations, happy so far, your mileage may vary.

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