Firefox Installer

Install any version of firefox from Mozilla.org on Debian based distros

Also check out thunderbird-installer

Currently supported distros:

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• LinuxMint
• PureOS
• Pop
• Devuan

Installation

curl -sSL https://tmiland.github.io/firefox-installer/firefox_installer.sh \
     -o firefox_installer.sh && \
     chmod +x firefox_installer.sh && \
     ./firefox_installer.sh -h

Prerequisites

• curl (will be installed)
• packages that will be installed if using mozilla builds:

menu libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2 libdbus-1-3 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb-shm0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1

• git (if installing mozilla-sync)

Features

• Download any version of firefox, from Mozilla or package manager (apt)
• Install Mozilla APT repo
• Install self hosted Firefox Sync (Docker)
  • Using dev branch from tmiland/firefox-sync
  • Tested and working with firefox 148.0
• Take backups of your firefox profile

Usage

Usage: firefox_installer.sh [options]

  --help                 |-h   display this help and exit
  --firefox              |-f   latest
  --esr                  |-e   esr
  --beta                 |-b   beta
  --nightly              |-n   nightly
  --devedition           |-d   devedition
  --release              |-rl  select custom release to install*
  --repo                 |-r   install Mozilla APT repo (apt)
  --firefox-sync         |-fs  install firefox-sync (docker)
  --language             |-l   install language pack (apt)
  --apt                  |-a   select apt install mode
  --mozilla-builds       |-m   select mozilla builds install mode
  --backup-profile       |-bp  backup firefox profile
  --uninstall            |-u   uninstall firefox

  install from apt:            [-f|-e|-b|-n|-d] -a
  install from mozilla builds: [-f|-e|-b|-n|-d] -m
  uninstall:                   [-f|-e|-b|-n|-d], [-a|-m] -u
  * custom release for mozilla builds only [-rl <release>]

Install all versions from mozilla builds

for i in f e b n d; do
  ./firefox_installer.sh -$i -m
done

Credits

• Mozilla for Firefox
• porelli/firefox-sync for dockerized mozilla-sync.
• Huge thanks to Self Hosting A Firefox Sync Server for finding a solution to get firefox-sync working.

Donations

Disclaimer

*** Use at own risk ***

License

MIT License