Firefox
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.