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Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
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Take a look at
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ores-user-data and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...tiple_profiles
I may have missed it, but what is your reason for not using Firefox from the repos? Things would be simpler.Kubuntu 20.04
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Originally posted by Snowhog View PostType ls -la ~/.mozilla/firefox instead. Copy/paste the output inside of CODE tags.
total 28
drwx------ 6 greg greg 4096 Mar 4 07:06 .
drwx------ 4 greg greg 4096 Feb 26 15:02 ..
drwx------ 3 greg greg 4096 Mar 4 07:06 Crash Reports
drwx------ 17 greg greg 4096 Mar 8 20:02 ibf0en2f.default
drwx------ 2 greg greg 4096 Mar 4 07:06 Pending Pings
-rw-rw-r-- 1 greg greg 104 Feb 28 13:30 profiles.ini
drwx------ 17 greg greg 4096 Feb 28 13:29 r8uw1dh2.default
greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$Greg
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Originally posted by chimak111 View PostTake a look at
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ores-user-data and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...tiple_profiles
I may have missed it, but what is your reason for not using Firefox from the repos? Things would be simpler.Greg
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To use code tags, type [CODE] before the content and [/CODE] immediately after the content.
Re. installing regular Firefox, just runCode:sudo apt-get update
Code:sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Code:sudo apt-get install firefox
Last edited by chimak111; Mar 09, 2018, 12:13 AM.Kubuntu 20.04
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Originally posted by claydoh View PostIf you have Muon package manager (not Discover), you can view different package versions available, and lock a particular one, all from the GUI. Right-click on the package, and you will see the option there
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Originally posted by dequire View PostI can confirm this works great, and unless one is doing this from the CLI for educational reasons (which is a VERY valid reason!) this would be the easiest way to control and manage this.Kubuntu 20.04
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Originally posted by chimak111 View PostBut OP has installed Firefox in the home folder by extracting a compressed file downloaded directly from Mozilla: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/. Apt/dpkg weren't involved at all in the installation. So this particular software isn't registered with the system.
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Originally posted by GregM View PostI tried to do what Bing suggested but maybe I screwed it up.
It's just that every time I tried to start what I hoped was FF55, 45 would start.
Probably those terminal inputs that you suggested told you what is where and what is installed and so on.
Wish I knew more about it.
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I had 45 installed/runniing and then downloaded 53 and then 55.
I did your solution on 55 but when I clicked the icon on the panel it always started 45. So I went in to the icon and changed the location entrees to where 55 is.
It starts 55 fine now but as you can tell 45 is still lurking.
Since then I have totally deleted 53.
Maybe if I uninstalled 45 your solution would yield different results??Greg
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Downloading from the site won't change your icons so that's perfectly normal. As you downloaded it from the site then you will always have to manually point things to that folder. So when you want other programs to open a link in a browser, you will need to point to the folder, not just type "firefox" as the latter points to the one that installed from the repository. Which I am presuming in your case is 45? Only uninstall if you've no further use for it. It's not required to do so.
As Chimak said, pinning is only relevant to things that are installed from the repository. If you've turned off updates in the Firefox settings, as I said then you should be fine.
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Because I was running it and had troubles with videos with it.
https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...k-videos/page2Last edited by GregM; Mar 09, 2018, 07:44 PM.Greg
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