Unbranded Firefox download must be hard-coded (for now)

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker
Domain
devops

Research direction

Read Dockerfile line 31 and the linked Mozilla Extension Signing page to understand the current ESR and Developer Edition download handling. Check the linked Bugzilla ticket for whether Mozilla has added a static unbranded download link; this issue is done only when that link exists and the Dockerfile no longer needs manual version parsing or hard-coding.

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Description

In this RUN command, you can see that for ESR and Developer Edition, the latest Firefox version is able to be programmatically downloaded from static links provided by Mozilla. Currently, however, there is no static link available for the unbranded version.

For this reason we have to manually parse the Extension Signing page to figure out what the latest version is, and hard-code that link into the Dockerfile. This is less than ideal. I've opened a ticket on bugzilla for Mozilla to provide a static link for the latest unbranded download, so this issue is blocking on that.

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