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arm64/armhf firefox binary tarballs for packaging for ubuntu touch

fuseteam
Making moves

Hiya, i'm looking how feasible it is to package firefox for Ubuntu Touch. i managed to get something working (but as of right now, no clipboard integration and no hardware accelleration yet) by extracting the debs from ubuntu manually and packaging it for the OS.

However the version i got is rather old (version 88), i would like to test a newer version of firefox to see how well it works. i recently discovered there's a amd64 binary tarball on the official site, i was hoping i could get a hold of arm64/armhf binary tarballs to test how newer versions of firefox perform on ubuntu touch. I'm hoping to see if can get firefox to use the wayland protocol on Ubuntu Touch, and see how far we can get.

A month ago i did post this in the ideas section, but after a few edits i made a few weeks ago to clarify that i mean arm binaries packaged as a tarball like the one on the official site it has been in moderation ever since. now that i found the discussion section, i have a feeling that i may posted in the wrong section and thought maybe i should repost it here. If i'm wrong and should be more patient feel free to redirect me

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Anonymous
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Hi, I am Quilty weavy. Why don't you try searching for the arm versions in https://ftp.mozilla.org or the mozilla github repository :- https://github.com/mozilla?

hi, i did take a look. there is arm builds there as far as i can tell, not yet anyway

Anonymous
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 I have found a debian package for the armhf version of firefox :- https://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_100.0.2-1_armhf.deb will it do good?

fuseteam
Making moves

in the meantime i have discovered this bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677963
it seems there is some movement happening here, i'll be following that tracker to see where this goes

sylvestre
Employee
Employee

Firefox Nightly on am64 is now available:

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/04/19/firefox-nightly-now-available-for-linux-on-arm64/

Hopefully soon for beta & release

 

fuseteam
Making moves

awesome, i've added the apt repo to my pipeline; now just waiting for the release