Installing firefox nightly

Does somone know how to install firefox nightly.

What's the best way to install Firefox Nightly and Developer Edition?

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Welcome to :fedora:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Nightly#Linux

As an aside, I would like to add that the Copr repo for Firefox Nightly has not been building for quite some time. I have no clue who to ping on this but definitely do not add that repo.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/proletarius101/firefox-nightly/builds/

There hasn’t been a successful build in over 2 months.

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Firefox Nightly can be installed

  1. As a flatpak, see my repo for a list of flatpak remotes, including the repos for various Mozilla products, that ship flatpaks using the binaries
  2. As the binary, following above guide

I used the Flatpak (well, dogfooding my own repo list of course :wink:) for FF and TB Nightly and they are pretty great.

I prefer them over the standalone binaries, as they are centrally updated and have permissions.

BUT, using the Flatpak is more insecure in terms of sandboxing processes from another. This is a big flaw in Firefoxes design that makes it incompatible with (filesystem) isolating processes as a Flatpak.

So for FF I use the RPM or binary nightly, for Thunderbird I use the Flatpak, as process isolation is not important there.

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