Firefox Quantum Flatpak

Cant’t wait Firefox Quantum with Flatpak? Here’s my experiment. After got headache with the first experiment, then i tried the second experiment. The steps are:

Build and install locally #

• flatpak-builder --repo=repo firefox org.mozilla.Firefox.json
• flatpak build-export repo firefox
• flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify --if-not-exists firefox-repo repo
• flatpak --user install firefox-repo org.mozilla.Firefox
• flatpak run org.mozilla.Firefox

Bundle #

• flatpak build-bundle repo firefox.flatpak org.mozilla.Firefox
• flatpak build-import-bundle repo firefox.flatpak

Clean #

• flatpak uninstall --user org.mozilla.Firefox
• flatpak remote-delete --user firefox-repo

Install firefox.flatpak #

• flatpak install firefox.flatpak
  • require GNOME 3.24 runtime, if there’s no runtime, add the repository flatpak remote-add --from gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome.flatpakrepo
  • then install the runtime flatpak install gnome org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/3.24

Run #

• flatpak run org.mozilla.Firefox

Tested on #

• Endless OS 3.3.3

• openSUSE Leap 42.3

• Ubuntu 16.04

Issue #

• Icon doesn’t appear fix on this pull request