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It seems the ppa for Firefox Developer Edition (formally aurora) is no longer active. I have installed Firefox Developer Edition from Firefox's website and installed it in /opt/firefox. Now it is asking me to update and I get a new tar file. Do I have to overwrite that directory every time I want to do an update? Of note, related post:

do not seem to work for me.

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Did you open the PPAs in a browser and navigate upwards? That's all I did for this answer (starting with a link from your provided link that gave me a forbidden error)

You'll eventually see the PPA being used is

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

This may not be all they provide - I just followed links to an alternative.

Do note however - I have no experience using this 3rd party source; having never used it, thus cannot say this is what you're looking is suitable, fit for purpose, nor what you're actually looking for (even your unstated architecture).

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  • I am looking for firefox developer edition, not firefox
    – SumNeuron
    Feb 25, 2022 at 23:28
  • You can look yourself as what they (Mozilla) provide; however they have opted to provide packages via snap for Ubuntu, as it gives Mozilla greater control; so deb packages options are now reduced on what they used to be.
    – guiverc
    Feb 25, 2022 at 23:44
  • to my knowledge they no longer offer developer edition via ppa, hence my question. So how do I update it? or how do I find the ppa if it does exist?
    – SumNeuron
    Feb 25, 2022 at 23:45
  • I would likely ask the question on a Mozilla forums as I'm largely limited to what I see with various projects with, which has included via Ubuntu News various statements from Mozilla & the future via snap but it was mostly general news & I don't know if it covered all products (eg. Developer Edition) as not being a user of it myself, I had no interest in remembering it.
    – guiverc
    Feb 25, 2022 at 23:49
  • I've checked the forums. So since I can't find the ppa and had to install it via deb. Now that it offers an update via deb, how do I install that?
    – SumNeuron
    Feb 26, 2022 at 0:08
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You just need to change the permissions of your install folder in /opt as such: sudo chown -R $(whoami): /opt/firefox/

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  • this does not answer the question at all. OP was asking what is the best way to update and did not indicate in any way that they were having permission issues.
    – Esther
    Jul 5, 2022 at 16:23

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