Firefox Developer Edition

[qHlkisy4W9]

I use Firefox Developer Edition and the normal release in parallel on Mac and it works very well.

If you’re doing web development there’s a bunch of extensions/configs that you want on the development browser but not your main browser, and it’s nice to rapidly switch between them.

It would be great to have a separate snap to support this use case on Ubuntu. I know I can achieve the same thing with a snap for a different browser, but I’m attached to Firefox.

[ogra]

you can just install a second firefox (even from a different channel if you want a daily build or the esr version):

Parallel Installs

Parallel installs enable you to run multiple instances of the same snap on the same system. Each instance is completely isolated from all other instances, including its name, configuration, interface connections, data locations, services, applications and aliases. This feature is currently considered experimental. In particular, snap install will fail if the same snap is already installed. See below for a workaround and see Current limitations for more details. As a result, to experiment with p…

(i know a lot of people do this to run standard and esr versions alongside)

[qHlkisy4W9]

Thanks for the reply, I followed the instructions and this seems to be working for what I intended.

The first time I tried to install the second channel my original install stopped working with this error:

 XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /snap/firefox/2667/usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so:
 libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 Couldn't load XPCOM.

But after I removed the new one, refreshed the old one, and installed the new one again it works!