Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating
Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating
Good to see development effort going towards actual Firefox and not those random Mozilla products that I can't keep track of
Do you mean products like their VPN? They really need the revenue to try and become more independent from Google. Right now something like 90% of their income comes from a deal with Google to make Google the default search engine.
kinda wish they would put nightly on fdroid too instead of just google play or through the website
Doesn't Firefox use GCM? I think fdroid doesn't allow apps that use that
Good :)
After the disaster with colorways, mozilla has picked up the pace and started being sane again.
Sorry for commenting on my own post, won't happen again.
:)
You don't even build from source?
What kind of Linux users are you?
Never built Firefox from source but Chromium takes way longer than the kernel for me. Like half an hour on a 5800x3D. Bit much for nightly updates.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While Mozilla has always produced Firefox Nightly builds for Linux as traditional binaries, they have finally decided to offer up an APT repository of Firefox Nightly builds to make it easy to stay up-to-date with new Firefox Nightly releases on Debian and Ubuntu Linux based distributions.
Mozilla announced today they have setup an APT repository as an easy option for using Firefox Nightly on Ubuntu/Debian-based platforms.
The Firefox Nightly Debian packages will also see better performance thanks to extra compiler optimizations, additional security hardening with extra security-related compiler flags, and easily stay up-to-date now via the APT package management.
Eventually the packages will become available for Beta, ESR, and release branches of Firefox from this APT repository too.
More details on this long overdue Firefox APT repository via Mozilla.org.
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Some day they will offer linux version that you can download from from the website and install without using terminal.
Appimage? So we go behave like windows users?
Whilst I agree that that's a nice option to have (more options are usually better!) I've come to love the linux way of distribution via repositories. These days I barely use the cli too: GNOME software and KDE's Discover are great. Perhaps an official nightly flatpak would be best?
So how many debian packages with firefox are now available? debian sid, stable, testing & firefox nightly?
Does it include unique IDs for each installation as well? What snitching to Mozilla every single time you launch the browser and a 3rd party analytics company even after disabling everything that can be disabled via settings and config?
snitching to Mozilla every single time you launch the browser
It's only for the first run, to track downloads and installations. Pretty much every mobile app on both Android and iOS, and a lot of desktop apps, do the same thing as they want to know how many people install (and uninstall) their app.
It's also only if you download the installer from the Firefox site, so Linux repos are unaffected.
Dude, fire Wireshark, launch Firefox and then come back here. Just because others do it, doesn't mean it is decent nor should Mozilla do it and no, its just not once, Firefox is constantly going for their servers for multiple reasons, not all requests include the ID that's true, but calling 3rd party analytics companies... from a browser.. kind of questionable. We all know there are other ways to fingerprint a browser.
Stop believing on the narrative of the all savior Mozilla. They're full of shit, less than others indeed, but still shit.
Deb monoculture is a sick plague
WAT?
I can not make sense of this comment at all. Can you explain what it is you mean?
He's complaining that only Debian packages were released, which are compatible with most of popular distros.
Ask ChatGPT
I am sure there will be a aur package soon bundling this deb into a arch package. So nothing to worry about (for the good package managers)
Hehehe. What about RPM users? This fragmentation in Linux packaging robs users of choice.
Would rather have Firefox setup a repository for the nightly channel, after all they official maintain the stable channel on Flathub.
That way everyone benefits from the utility.
Would to see them publish stable releases via this apt repository as well.
Looks like that will happen later. From Mozilla's original article:
I read that, but I don't know if that means they will publish stable releases via the same repository. That just sounds like the packages themselves will end up being in those channels (which makes sense, nightly becomes beta, which becomes a release, which ends up as esr). It doesn't necessarily mean this apt repository will be a release channel itself.
That said, there is the Mozilla Team PPA.
Brilliant