Firefox Quantum /Adding system wide menu item in Application menu


Download Firefox Quantum from the below link

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Extract it and keep it in the path of your choice, say /home/user/Documents/firefox

Note: If you move folder from this path after you had made menu item for this, then item will no longer starts as because of path problem.

Adding system wide menu item

1. Search in the applications bar for Main menu

 

 

a) Here we choose Internet menu for adding new item firefox

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b) Click New Item and give Name: Firefox Quantum

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c) Under Command Give appropriate path for the executable “firefox” from firefox folder

/home/user/Documents/firefox/firefox

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d) Also click the icon area and add corresponding pic from firefox/browser/…./icon/iconname.png

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e) You can also check launch in terminal , if so application will be launched via terminal.(Normally uncheck)

With all these steps we are done..! Hurray

Lets check FirefoxQuantum in Applications menu

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Now we have the item listing in Menu.

Right click and add to favorites so that you will get it in activities menu and avoid searching in applications all the times.

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