ffupdate.sh
#!/bin/bash
FTPDIR="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly"
AURORA="firefox-5.0a2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2"
NIGTHLY="firefox-6.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2"
DLDIR="Hämtningar"
#
cd ~/${DLDIR}
rm -rf firefox*
test -d /opt/aurora || sudo mkdir /opt/aurora
wget ${FTPDIR}/latest-mozilla-aurora/${AURORA}
test -f ${AURORA} && tar xjf ${AURORA} || \
( echo "Aurora download fail" && exit 1 )
sudo rm -rf /opt/aurora/*
sudo mv firefox/* /opt/aurora/
rm -rf firefox*
test -d /opt/minefield || sudo mkdir /opt/minefield
wget ${FTPDIR}/latest-trunk/${NIGTHLY}
test -f ${NIGTHLY} && tar xjf ${NIGTHLY} || \
( echo "Nightly download fail" && exit 1 )
sudo rm -rf /opt/minefield/*
sudo mv firefox/* /opt/minefield/
rm -rf firefox*
To be improved and adjusted when new versions appear, but it does the job for now.
Excerpt from .bashrc
alias ff36="/usr/bin/firefox -no-remote -P ff36 &"
alias ff4="/opt/firefox4/firefox -no-remote -P ff4 &"
alias ffclean="/opt/firefox4/firefox -no-remote -P clean &"
alias ffbeta="/opt/ffbeta/firefox -no-remote -P beta &"
alias ffaurora="/opt/aurora/firefox -no-remote -P aurora &"
alias minefield="/opt/minefield/firefox -no-remote -P minefield &"
