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FirefoxUpdate - Update a Firefox version from shell, e.g. newest Firefox stable on Debian stable (which is otherwise stuck with ESR).
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Update a Firefox version from shell. | |
| # Useful for Debian stable and its ESR shenanigans. | |
| # Can break due to a lot of things but w/e get off my lawn. | |
| FFX_DIR="/opt/firefox" | |
| INSTALL_DIR="$(dirname $FFX_DIR)" | |
| # You can add a 'lang' query param to URL if you want (e.g. 'fr', 'it', ...) | |
| BASE_URL="https://download.mozilla.org/" | |
| FFX_PRODUCT="firefox-latest-ssl" | |
| FFX_OS="linux64" | |
| URL="${BASE_URL}?product=${FFX_PRODUCT}&os=${FFX_OS}" | |
| ARCHIVE_NAME="$(tempfile)" | |
| cd $INSTALL_DIR | |
| curl -Lv $URL -o $ARCHIVE_NAME | |
| sudo tar xf $ARCHIVE_NAME | |
| rm $ARCHIVE_NAME |
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