Unofficial Firefox Developer Edition flatpak

Install

1. Install flatpak (>=0.11.1), xdg-desktop-portal and its backends. Latest versions are preferred.

2. Add the Flathub repository if absent

3. Install this package

# System
flatpak install https://gitlab.com/projects261/firefox-dev-flatpak/-/raw/main/firefox-dev.flatpakref

# User
flatpak install --user https://gitlab.com/projects261/firefox-dev-flatpak/-/raw/main/firefox-dev.flatpakref

Uninstall

# Only remove
flatpak remove org.mozilla.FirefoxDev

# Delete data and remove
flatpak remove --delete-data org.mozilla.FirefoxDev

# Clear dependencies
flatpak uninstall --unused

# Delete the remote
flatpak remote-delete firefoxdev-origin

Bugs

Check if it is already a known issue first https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=flatpak

Check if it is reproducible in the official tarball (preferably in a new profile or safe mode). If it is, open a bug with Mozilla, optionally use mozregression to bisect it.

Common troubleshooting help https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Firefox_problems

Otherwise feel free to open an issue here.

Credits

Mozilla for mainlining the stable flatpak recipes.

Original Nightly flatpak project https://gitlab.com/proletarius101/firefox-nightly-flatpak and CI templates https://gitlab.com/accessable-net/gitlab-ci-templates

Logo: Source, License

Set up personal repo

See https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/hosting-a-repository.html#hosting-a-repository-on-gitlab-github-pages

Build locally

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://gitlab.com/projects261/firefox-dev-flatpak.git && cd firefox-dev-flatpak

2. Install flatpak, flatpak-builder and set up the Flathub repository on user location.

3. Run this command to build and install

flatpak-builder build --force-clean --user --install-deps-from=flathub --install org.mozilla.FirefoxDev.yaml

4. To update, change this URL to point to the latest release and update the sha256 below. Then redo step #3.

Signature

GPG key used to sign repo: F8A5F798CA257770

You can verify the key used, using

gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring=</var/lib | ~/.local/share>/flatpak/repo/firefoxdev-origin.trustedkeys.gpg --lock-never --list-keys

and even create the keyring yourself using:

gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./firefoxdev-origin.trustedkeys.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F8A5F798CA257770

mv firefoxdev-origin.trustedkeys.gpg </var/lib | ~/.local/share>/flatpak/repo

Expired

If flatpak says that the key is expired, try removing the repo using

flatpak remote-delete --force firefoxdev-origin

then add it back again.