Firefox icon is not displaying in Firefox58
Hi Guys! Recently I have downloaded the firefox58 for Linux (ubuntu 16.04) and then I have uncompressed it. I have used the following commands :
1) downloaded the firefox for linux distro (Firefox58) 2) tar -xjf firefox-58.0.tar.bz2 3) sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox56 4) sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox58 5) sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxold 6) sudo ln -s /opt/firefox58/firefox-bin /usr/bin/firefox
The firefox is working well, but the traditional firefox icon is not displaying anywhere. Every time I have to go /opt/firefox58 and have to click the firefox executable to run firefox in my system. I don't know how to get it correct. Could you please help me ? Thanks Pree
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pree-jackie said
The firefox is working well, but the traditional firefox icon is not displaying anywhere. Every time I have to go /opt/firefox58 and have to click the firefox executable to run firefox in my system. I don't know how to get it correct.
The tarbal is just a archive as there is no installer. You need to create the launcher on desktop or panel or such yourself.
http://sharadchhetri.com/2017/02/10/create-desktop-launcher-in-unity-desktop-ubuntu-16-04-lts/
There is a Firefox icon (mozicon128.png) you can use in the firefox > browser > icons folder you can use.
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Hi, such fun on Linux to create a short cut. Anyway https://www.faqforge.com/linux/create-shortcuts-in-linux-symbolic-links/ or use the one that works for your Flavor.
So find the exe file which you have been doing and create the shortcut where you want it. Know Idea why install did not make one, mystery's of the computer.
If this is the solution for your problem Please mark this as the answer and Solved. Thanks.
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pree-jackie said
The firefox is working well, but the traditional firefox icon is not displaying anywhere. Every time I have to go /opt/firefox58 and have to click the firefox executable to run firefox in my system. I don't know how to get it correct.
The tarbal is just a archive as there is no installer. You need to create the launcher on desktop or panel or such yourself.
http://sharadchhetri.com/2017/02/10/create-desktop-launcher-in-unity-desktop-ubuntu-16-04-lts/
There is a Firefox icon (mozicon128.png) you can use in the firefox > browser > icons folder you can use.
Pkshadow said
So find the exe file which you have been doing and create the shortcut where you want it. Know Idea why install did not make one, mystery's of the computer.
.exe is a Windows thing as I take it you never used a Linux distro before.
To run .exe on Linux you would use say Wine and related software with it like PlayOnLinux if you were to say run Windows games for example.
The Firefox tarbal from Mozilla is basically like the .zip archive version of Firefox on Windows where you just extract and run Firefox.