https://github.com/bandithedoge/nixpkgs-firefox-darwin

Nixpkgs overlay with Firefox binary builds for macOS
https://github.com/bandithedoge/nixpkgs-firefox-darwin

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Nixpkgs overlay with Firefox binary builds for macOS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bandithedoge/nixpkgs-firefox-darwin
• Owner: bandithedoge
• Created: 2021-12-12T17:28:12.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-14T00:49:09.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T01:31:54.656Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 165 KB
• Stars: 36
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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• awesome-nix - nixpkgs-firefox-darwin - Automatically updated Firefox binary packages for macOS. (Overlays / Webinterface)

README

        
# nixpkgs-firefox-darwin

The Nixpkgs repository has long struggled with broken `firefox`, `librewolf`, and `floorp` packages on Darwin. Unfortunately, the `-bin` variants do not offer any support for Darwin. To address this issue, this overlay has been created, aiming to provide `-bin` packages for Firefox, Librewolf, and Floorp, generated directly from official builds.

## How to use it

Minimal configuration example using flakes, nix-darwin and home-manager:

```nix

# flake.nix

{

  inputs = {

    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";

    darwin.url = "github:lnl7/nix-darwin/master";

    home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";

    nixpkgs-firefox-darwin.url = "github:bandithedoge/nixpkgs-firefox-darwin";

  };

  outputs = { self, darwin, home-manager, nixpkgs, ... }@inputs: {

    darwinConfigurations."machine" = let

      # replace this with your username, obviously

      username = "bandithedoge";

    in darwin.lib.darwinSystem {

      system = "x86_64-darwin";

      modules = [

        home-manager.darwinModules.home-manager

        {

          nixpkgs.overlays = [ inputs.nixpkgs-firefox-darwin.overlay ];

          home-manager.users.${username} = {

            programs.firefox = {

              enable = true;

              # IMPORTANT: use a package provided by the overlay (ends with `-bin`)

              # see overlay.nix for all possible packages

              package = pkgs.firefox-bin; # Or use pkgs.librewolf for Librewolf or pkgs.floorp-bin for Floorp

            };

          };

        }

      ];

    };

  };

}

```

## How it works

The entire overlay is controlled by a script that fetches release information from Mozilla and puts the version, URL and SHA256 in a JSON file. The JSON gets imported by a Nix expression and the values are used to build a derivation. The script can be run manually or with a GitHub action.