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jonnybarnes

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2011-05-11

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Installing Firefox Nightly with an icon in GNOME 3

I've downloaded the tarball of Firefox Nightly and copied it to me `/opt` folder. The firefox folder is owned by my user account and so nightly will auto-update itself fine.

The only problem is with my `.dexktop` file. I created this: `~/.local/share/applications/firefox-nightly.desktop`

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Name=Firefox Nightly
Comment=Browse the Internet (Nightly)
Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox %u
Icon=firefox-nightly.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

And I copied the the file `$firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png` to `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/firefox-nightly.png`. However when I search for Firefox Nightly the generic diamond icon is shown, and then next to activities, it says "Firefox" and shows the normal firefox logo.

How can I get the icon to display properly? Thanks.

Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 389

Re: Installing Firefox Nightly with an icon in GNOME 3

Try removing the file extension in the .desktop file (Icon=firefox-nightly).
If this does not work, just use the full file path.

jonnybarnes

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2011-05-11

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Re: Installing Firefox Nightly with an icon in GNOME 3

Excellent, halfway there, the logo now appears correctly when searching for Nightly

I'm still getting issues having both Nightly and stable installed though. Having searched for Nightly and clicked the Firefox Nightly icon, the top left of the screen initially says "Firefox Nightly" next to "Activities" with the nightly logo. Then when the web browser window opens up the top-left text switches to saying "Firefox" with the default logo. Any ideas on that?

Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 389

Re: Installing Firefox Nightly with an icon in GNOME 3

What do you mean with "top-left text"? Could you post a screenshot?

jonnybarnes

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 135

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Re: Installing Firefox Nightly with an icon in GNOME 3

When I first start Nightly, that says Firefox Nightly and has the nightly logo, then when the browser window actually opens (usually after one or two seconds) it changes to that. For some reason GNOME thinks I'm running stable firefox when I'm running Nightly.

Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 389

Re: Installing Firefox Nightly with an icon in GNOME 3

Well, I don't know what causes this. But I could reproduce it.
I have tried to set nightly as default but it has no effect.
Only uninstalling Firefox stable helps but I think that is no solution for you.