Install Firefox Nightly in Ubuntu or Linux

What is Firefox Nightly? (According to firefox)
Under heavy development. Least stable/secure. First tests of newchanges/features; some changes/features introduced in Nightly may be removed before Release and other versions. Only for testing. Should only be used by very experienced users/testers.

Let's see how to install it in Ubuntu.
At first download the firefox nightly file from here.

Now open it with Archive Manager by double clicking on the file you've downloaded. Then extract it into /tmp directory.

Now open terminal by pressing CTRL + ALT + T
First go to super user mode by typing to following command.

sudo su

Now create a directory.

mkdir /opt/firefox

Now type the following command to move the extracted file into the new directory.

chown -R root:root /tmp/firefox && mv /tmp/firefox /opt/firefox/firefox-nightly


Now make a Symlink for Easy-Starting.

ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox-nightly/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox-nightly

Thats it. Now type following command to run Nightly.


firefox-nightly&