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Mozilla: Help us uncover Firefox 3rd party installers (discourse.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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From the post:

In 2023, a significant portion of Firefox downloads came from unknown sources. We believe many of them came from 3rd party websites that let you download Firefox. While some websites are okay, others can put you at risk of downloading an old version or a build with the wrong locale, leading to security risks, a bad user experience, or even malicious installations.

Help the Firefox team to uncover this mystery by taking part in the Firefox 3rd-party installer campaign 3!

There will be swag, and you’ll be featured in our blog if you manage to report 10 valid reports. So don’t forget to invite your friends too!

Have any questions about this campaign? Join us on Matrix or watch the recording of our community call with Romain Testard, Principal Product Manager at Mozilla.

Please also help spread the word about this campaign by sharing this on your social media.

Keep on rocking the helpful web,

Kiki & Konstantina

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Evidence? And if so, I don't think Mozilla cares (e.g. snaps are probably repackaged installers).

If you're renaming things, you're going to recompile to put your branding on it. So things like Mull, Mullvad Browser, Librewolf, etc will all use their own binaries.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The flatpak is absolutely not a repackaged installer and I dont think the snap is either.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, I just figured packagers would be lazy and just use upstream builds. That's what I would do.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

They mostly use mozilla binaries, but download them once and package the install in their own format.

So this will download once instead of thousands of times