0install Firefox

0install feeds for Firefox

Yay! Feeds for every language of the latest version of Firefox.

It took ages to get all the scripts doing what they should be. I have version 2.0.0.6 and 2.0.0.5, and it’s fairly straightforward to add new ones (see the scripts directory).

0install is a cool little system which I like a lot. I made a Firefox feed before, for 2.0b1, but that was just for en-GB. It’s very easy to make feeds, but obviously Firefox and its 44 localisations requires something a little different. There’s a Debian (and Ubuntu) package: zeroinstall-injector.

To run Firefox:

0launch http://holizz.com/software/0install/Firefox/ja.xml

To make the command “firefox” run Firefox:

0alias firefox http://holizz.com/software/0install/Firefox/ja.xml

You can also drag and drop the URL onto XFCE’s “Program Launcher”, and there appears to be a Zero2Desktop application for adding 0install applications to GNOME/KDE menus. But my favourite method is using ROX’s AddApp.

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