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[https://www.moxilla.org/firefox Firefox] is a graphical web browser developed by Mozilla. | |||
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Revision as of 01:30, 27 April 2020
Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by Mozilla.
FAQ
I want Firefox, what is Nightly?
Mozilla's trademarks on Firefox disallows distributing unofficial builds using the Firefox trademark. This is why the Nix-built Firefox is named Nightly.
The official builds are available by enabling unfree and installing firefox-bin.
Firefox ESR and Oracle JDK
Note: It is not clear whether this section is out of date, and whether any Firefox release in Nixpkgs allows to use Java. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/84909.
Firefox stops support of Java plugin. To use Java plugin you have to use special Firefox ESR, Extended Support Release.
Also, Oracle doesn't provide a nice way to automate Oracle JDK installation without accepting license. See https://gist.github.com/danbst/30165b59996fb403068c74a95b108d6f for possible way to combine automated JDK and Firefox ESR download.
Troubleshooting
If you can't start the browser because of a configuration error.
For example:
firefox
1554035168269 Marionette FATAL Error de análisis XML: entidad indefinida
Ubicación: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Línea 2526, columna 13: <toolbarbutton id="tracking-protection-preferences-button"
JavaScript error: resource:///modules/aboutpages/AboutPrivateBrowsingHandler.jsm, line 28: TypeError: this.pageListener is undefinedAn easy way to get away from this is to start firefox with the
firefox -safe-modecommand. Then you can troubleshoot your actual problem or you can call your luck by calling the refresh option (a special button will appear when firefox starts in this mode). This wil reset your configuratino to a sane state and you will be ussually able to start the browser again, but you will loose most of your customization.
Enabling Plasma Browser Integration
1. Add following line to your configuration.nix:
nixpkgs.config.firefox.enablePlasmaBrowserIntegration = true;
If you wandering where this part is coming from see NixOS Manual:Customising Packages
2. Install KDE's Firefox extension: Link