It is intended to be ethical and (in Waterfox Classic) maintain support for legacy extensions dropped by Firefox, from which it is forked. Waterfox is an open-source web browser for 圆4, ARM64, and PPC64LE systems.
Install waterfox ubuntu how to#
So hopefully it will work.In this guide, we will show you how to install Waterfox Browser on Ubuntu systems. This procedure was recently tested in Ubuntu MATE 20.04. If you do not find "Main menu" named app then you will have to install it. Then you can add it to your desktop by a left click of mouse on the app and then select pin to desktop. And then go to your menu and search for waterfox. Then you will be again on the main page of "Main menu". From there you will go to Waterfox and scroll down and you will find a file named waterfox which is a shared library (application/x-sharedlib) type file. Go to the folder in which you have kept the extracted waterfox file. It will take you again to your file system. Then click on browse beside the option command. Waterfox > browser > chrome > icon > defaults > default128.png Then go to the folder in which you have kept the extracted waterfox file. Then click on the icon which will take you to your file system.
Then set a name for the app (for example, Waterfox). If you find it, then click on it and click on "internet". Search in the app menu if you can find a "Main menu" software. Then move it to a secured folder from the downloads folder. This works on my system and the icon showed up under Applicationsįirst download the waterfox. MimeType=text/html text/xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml application/rss+xml application/rdf+xml image/gif image/jpeg image/png x-scheme-handler/http x-scheme-handler/https x-scheme-handler/ftp x-scheme-handler/chrome video/webm application/x-xpinstall Īnd created a link /usr/local/bin waterfox -> /opt/waterfox/waterfox Keywords=Internet WWW Browser Web Explorer Delete the lines that are not needed and edit the lines from Firefox to make Waterfox: sudo cp /usr/share/applications/sktop cat /usr/share/applications/sktopĬopied the existing firefox file, You could copy the an existing entry to tailor to make a new one for Waterfox. Have a look at the existing shortcut files, and in particular the one for Firefox to see what the syntax looks like: ls /usr/share/applications/firefox then cat /usr/share/applications/sktop Use the ls command to find and check that the Exec and Icon paths are correct. This assumes it was unzipped in the user's home folder.
Use :wq! if you opened vi without sudo and need to force exit.Ĭheck that the Exec points to the Waterfox executable.
Icon=/home/username/waterfox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
To open an edit session in vi: sudo vi /usr/share/applications/sktopĬontent to add to the file:
Install waterfox ubuntu software#
You could create a new folder in ~/ called Programs to put this kind of software in or put it under the /home/username folder. Extract the folder Waterfox to a location in your home folder.
Install waterfox ubuntu archive#
Double-click the file to open the file in a archive manager.Open Caja or another file manager to the folder where the file was downloaded to.Download the latest Linux version of the file from the Waterfox website.Download the file, extract using the gui, and link it to the menu.
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