Firefox

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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.

How do I get Firefox Quantum (57)?

When using NixOS 17.09, stable, nixos.firefox is version 57 as of December 24th 2017[1]. Alternatively, enabling unfree, and updating channels if required, allows the use of nixos.firefox-bin which is packaged from Mozilla's upstream released binaries.

Using NixOS unstable, the Nix-built nixos.firefox has been updated to 57.

Do note that Quantum is a marketing term, and as long as the version is greater than 57, the enhancements are in the Nix-built browser, which uses the name Nightly because of trademark issues.