Firefox

[stantonMember]

Mobile version of the Firefox web browser

Name: Firefox

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL) 2.0

Home Page: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/
(shows only Market download, the direct download link is well hidden in a bugzilla ticket)

Download: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/latest/android/
(two subdirectories, en-US and multi) [ed: not any more, see below]

Source Code: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/source/
(for downloading the whole source as a tarball, there are different entry points for browsing code online or cloning it via hg)

Issue Tracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

• This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by  daithib8.

[CiaranGMember]

http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=firefox

[SolrusoMember]

The new Version 14 of Firefox Mobile has been released.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox
Currently Version 10.0.5 is in the repository.

[daithib8Moderator]

I’m not sure why F-droid is not up to date as the apks are just pulled from here : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/ (it’s not build from source because it is too complex). Note that Firefox beta is up to date. I’m running nightly (v16) and its very usable on my phone. In particular it has text selection.

[daithib8Moderator]

Updated. The reason why Firefox was stock on 10 is that that’s the version in the http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/latest/android/ .

[SolrusoMember]

Firefox 17 was released, but the latest version on f-droid and http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/latest/android/ is still 16.0.2. Has mozilla changed their download locations again?

[daithib8Moderator]

No, apparently firefox 17 mobile is not out yet, though the reviews on the playmarket are all by people running v17, so thats why I thought it was out. That and the desktop release and the release notes.

[daithib8Moderator]

I cant watch Youtube videos now on Ff 18: says I need an app. I havent tried in a while so it might not be new.And they said h264 would be hardware accelerated this release: not sure if thats served on m.youtube.con though.

[SolrusoMember]

ff17 is available for download by now (one file per localization)

[blinxwangMember]

FFv18 is now the new stable version, and I believe v19 is the new Beta version.

[daithib8Moderator]

We can’t publish armv6 because the version names are the same.

sh-4.2$ aapt dump badging ~/Downloads/fennec-19.0.multi.android-arm.apk |grep Code
package: name=’org.mozilla.firefox’ versionCode=’2013021512′ versionName=’19.0′
sh-4.2$ aapt dump badging ~/Downloads/fennec-19.0.multi.android-arm-armv6.apk |grep Code
package: name=’org.mozilla.firefox’ versionCode=’2013021511′ versionName=’19.0′

[daithib8Moderator]

Firefox 21 on desktop now sends “health” info by default, but mobile still asks on first use. However, it phones home for new versions. Since this is no longer possible on Google Play we must have a different apk, meaning there is probably a flag to switch it off in the source code. So technically, it could get the tracking anti-feature, but let’s wait until they report stats by default, which I’m sure will come sooner or later.

[csolisrMember]

It’s curious that everyone forgot to point this out, but Firefox should be tagged as offering non-free addons. I mean, that’s the exact same reason for the existence of GNU IceCat!

[daithib8Moderator]

Good point. I suppose the reason it hasnt been done before is that we’d be really stirring the hornet’s nest and then, to be fair, we’d have to put it on anything that linked to Google Play, for example. Right now, it’s reserved for Lite software and Google-bait. I’ve recently started a topic to discuss the policy on Non free Network Services anti-feature too.

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