Thursday, August 7, 2014

Which Firefox build to download?

So, eventually this system is going to have to download all Firefox releases and test them. All of the releases are available here:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/

So, there are a LOT of releases on this server. So which ones to we want? Mozilla has five (or more) active release trains at any one point:


  • Nightly - This is a nightly build of the code checked into mozilla-central, the Mercurial repository that holds Firefox. It is the least stable of them all.
  • Aurora - This is for code that is Feature Complete™, or some other terminology, which means that the feature has landed but has had very little testing.
  • Beta - We want to release this build next time we release something, so we are going through final testing.
  • Latest - This is the latest release. Right now, this is Firefox 31, but that will change next release cycle.
  • ESR (Extended Support Release) - This release is primarily intended for large organizations who want fewer releases for stability. Right now, there are two of these, FF 24, and FF 30. More info on this topic is here.
There is a utility called mozdownload which is here. Once you build and install it, mozdownload is a big help. It deals with changing file names and dates and the like.

So where is all of this stuff on ftp.mozilla.org? And what is the mozdownload command-line for it?

I hope that this helps. It sure helps me.

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