Add Firefox as a source

[Dunexus]

Hello,

Since Firefox 124 (18 march), Mozilla is deprecating its github repository for android and will stop shipping github release after 126.

The apks can still available through their ftp : https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fenix/releases/

However, it is way more complex to configure as a source than a github repo. Maybe we could add a preconfigured Firefox source to easy the installation on it through Obtainium.

[ImranR98]

It's not a good idea to add something as a custom source if it already works using the HTML source. Doing so would lead to a lot of bloat over time and reduce the maintainability of the app.

Instead, one person could figure out how to add this to Obtainium and share their settings on https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

[Dunexus]

I've been using Obtainium for over a year and I just learn about this sharing website !
Thanks, I will try to find a way to configure firefox using html

[Dunexus]

Spent over an hour and didn't manage to get it working.
Html mode doesn't seem to handle hierarchy of links as the ftp provides.
Maybe someone else will find a way.

[DwainZwerg]

Spent over an hour and didn't manage to get it working.

I've already spent hours on this because I use Firefox Nightly, which was not available on GitHub at any time (see also #621). I've come to terms with the fact that I can only update this app like AuroraStore.

[rvandermeulen]

In case it helps, https://product-details.mozilla.org/1.0/mobile_versions.json is a supported endpoint for determining what the latest versions are for each channel, maybe used in combination with the previously-given FTP link. Should be useful for Release and Beta anyway. Nightly is a bit more challenging. There are places within the Mozilla CI system where you could always find the latest-available build, but I don't know how easily that'd integrate with this tool.

[rabaimorp]

Just adding a direct apk link to the latest arm64-v8a build from the oficial repo worked fine for me. Auto updates work as well, since the link to the latest apk is always the same.

https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/redirect?r=obtainium://app/%7B%22id%22%3A%22org.mozilla.fenix%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Ffirefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com%2Fapi%2Findex%2Fv1%2Ftask%2Fmobile.v3.firefox-android.apks.fenix-nightly.latest.arm64-v8a%2Fartifacts%2Fpublic%252Fbuild%252Ftarget.arm64-v8a.apk%22%2C%22author%22%3A%22firefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22Firefox%20Nightly%22%2C%22preferredApkIndex%22%3A0%2C%22additionalSettings%22%3A%22%7B%5C%22requestHeader%5C%22%3A%5B%7B%5C%22requestHeader%5C%22%3A%5C%22User-Agent%3A%20Mozilla%2F5.0%20(Linux%3B%20Android%2010%3B%20K)%20AppleWebKit%2F537.36%20(KHTML%2C%20like%20Gecko)%20Chrome%2F114.0.0.0%20Mobile%20Safari%2F537.36%5C%22%7D%5D%2C%5C%22trackOnly%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22invertAPKFilter%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22appName%5C%22%3A%5C%22%5C%22%2C%5C%22shizukuPretendToBeGooglePlay%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22exemptFromBackgroundUpdates%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22skipUpdateNotifications%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22about%5C%22%3A%5C%22%5C%22%2C%5C%22versionDetection%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22autoApkFilterByArch%5C%22%3Afalse%7D%22%7D

[Dunexus]

Looks like someone managed to get it working and shared a conf on https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

Not sure who they are but huge thanks

[DwainZwerg]

The point is that until recent times there was a missing feature in Obtainium allowing us to include the Mozilla repo (see #1625 (comment)). This was fixed by @ImranR98, so that our (on the whole correct) configs finally worked. Now, I (triggering several json errors, which is why the site was down for the last two days) and noodlejetski have added the configs to the website.

So you can close this discussion as resolved.