I’ve always used the Mozilla repository (listed here) to get the latest version of firefox, and when I installed aarch64 Leap 15.6 Alpha, I wasn’t too surprised to see that they didn’t have that particular flavor listed yet, but I found an aarch64 folder in the Leap 15.4 folder, and everything had been fine. That is until a few weeks ago, when it dissappeared, leaving me with version 124 installed, and only version 115 available from the official repositories.
The first issue is that the mozilla repo doesn’t support aarch64 any more, and the second is that it appears that the repo is depreciated? This page claims the official repos have the most recent builds and should be used instead, but version 115 was released almost a year ago, which in this context I would argue is not recent.
That may be the original release date, but it’s also the freshly re-released ESR version that doesn’t change UI every 6 weeks forcing its users to relearn its bugset, rearranged UI, and lost features. I got 115.12 less than 24 hours ago from here, where aarch64 is only offered for Windows, which suggests there may be a build limitation preventing 115’s and 127’s availability on other platforms.
I’ve been using Mozilla.org’s binary builds near exclusively since discovering them several years before Firefox existed, when Mozilla was morphing from Netscape Navigator. By using those builds instead of rpms, I’m free to use as many different versions as I have room and profiles for, all at the same time when desired. Rpms are fine for those who don’t mind living with whatever is offered that way. With web browsers, I enjoy more choices, with 5 different ones open ATM. Mozillas from Mozilla.org, Pale Moon from it own hosting, and Konq, Falkon, Chromium from rpms.
@mrmazda AFAIK it’s fixed for aarch64, but one of the rust components needs updating. to enable building… will that work on aarch64 for Leap… I don’t know…
