Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Discussion about official Mozilla Firefox builds
Locked
mozray
Posts: 76
Joined: March 10th, 2017, 3:48 pm

Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by mozray »

It's been almost a week since Firefox 56 has been released and we do not have an Unbranded build yet. Anyone know why?

https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox ... -on-devel/
barbaz
Posts: 1504
Joined: October 1st, 2014, 3:25 pm

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by barbaz »

Brummelchen
Posts: 4480
Joined: March 19th, 2005, 10:51 am

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by Brummelchen »

from my view it makes no sense to release an unbranded version to develop new legacy extensions. its not possible to sign them, only renew current. for endusers using unsinged extension is not recommended. creating extension with v56 for 52esr - dont know, makes either no sense. the only purpose to run such builds is to use outdated and not signed extensions. am i that wrong?
barbaz
Posts: 1504
Joined: October 1st, 2014, 3:25 pm

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by barbaz »

Brummelchen wrote:from my view it makes no sense to release an unbranded version to develop new legacy extensions. its not possible to sign them, only renew current.
Agreed
Brummelchen wrote:creating extension with v56 for 52esr - dont know, makes either no sense.
+1
Brummelchen wrote:the only purpose to run such builds is to use outdated and not signed extensions. am i that wrong?
Yep, you are. It's useful for developing WebExtensions. And for developing existing legacy extensions that cannot go full WebExtension until Firefox 57.
Brummelchen
Posts: 4480
Joined: March 19th, 2005, 10:51 am

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by Brummelchen »

yes, i though that - developing WE for v56. the problem behind is that v56 dont offer same API as v57. i put my current profile (v57) to v56 and it did not work at all, some buttons were empty and i see that some extension fail complete, eg group speed dial (no content), bookmarks hotlist (click causes nothing), clippings has no templates, stylus lost its styles. when i copy the whole profile to v58 all settings/data is present and working. on the other side v56 skipped so many legacy extensions. thats why i skipped v56, i dont like to develop my current profile from scratch.
mozray
Posts: 76
Joined: March 10th, 2017, 3:48 pm

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by mozray »

Thanks for the link, barbaz, but I'm not sure how to interpret info from Taskcluster.

Is there a link to a build on there?

Edit - Found it. You have to click on the target.zip link. Thanks again, barbaz!
barbaz
Posts: 1504
Joined: October 1st, 2014, 3:25 pm

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by barbaz »

mozray wrote:Thanks for the link, barbaz, but I'm not sure how to interpret info from Taskcluster.
Once you know that link, there's nothing more to interpret than before. Just click the link for the type of build you want, and on the right a list of files appears and you download what you want.

If you want the build as an installer, get "target.installer.exe". If you prefer a .zip package, get "target.zip".

EDIT Just saw your edit.
mozray wrote:Edit - Found it. You have to click on the target.zip link. Thanks again, barbaz!
You're welcome. 8-)
User avatar
therube
Posts: 21698
Joined: March 10th, 2004, 9:59 pm
Location: Maryland USA

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by therube »

Where in the world did you come up with taskcluster?
What is taskcluster?
Is it part of, by, Mozilla?

How did you know to use, or why did you use, 8fbf05f4b92125... rather then some other revision?

And then once there, what do you pick?
What's the difference between; add-on-devel & st-an-opt?
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
barbaz
Posts: 1504
Joined: October 1st, 2014, 3:25 pm

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by barbaz »

therube wrote:Where in the world did you come up with taskcluster?
Linux unbranded builds have been there for a couple releases - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extens ... ded_Builds
therube wrote:What is taskcluster?
Is it part of, by, Mozilla?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Taskcluster
therube wrote:How did you know to use, or why did you use, 8fbf05f4b92125... rather then some other revision?
I checked https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/ to find which revision is tagged "FIREFOX_56_0_RELEASE".
ee2001
Posts: 2
Joined: August 7th, 2005, 3:53 am

Re: Unbranded builds for Firefox 56 not up yet

Post by ee2001 »

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla ... e/branches

Can't find Firefox 56.

12 months ago FIREFOX_59_0_3_RELBRANCH changeset | changelog | files
22 months ago SEA_COMM510_20170330_RELBRANCH changeset | changelog | files
2017-04-19 MOBILE5301_2017041915_RELBRANCH changeset | changelog | files
2017-04-12 FUNNELCAKE_110_111_112_113_BRANCH changeset | changelog | files
2017-03-24 MOBILE5202_2017032405_RELBRANCH changeset | changelog | files
2017-03-02 FIREFOX_52_0_1_RELBRANCH changeset | changelog | files


No 32-bit Firefox 56.0.2 here:
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox ... -on-devel/
Locked