#!/bin/bash

# Install Firefox from "mozilla.org" builds in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

# The fasted way to startup firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

# No snaps, no flatpak, no mounts, no fat multilocale Firefox, no squashfs OStree compressions :)

# This script creat a NEW user profile for Firefox, and don't mess width your older user profiles or snap user profiles

# João Sousa 2022

# tuxmind.blogspot.com

# Dependencies: uuidgen and wget

# sudo apt install uuid-runtime wget

BASEDIR="$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")")"

# Install firefox in your system language

# OSLANG="pt-PT"

OSLANG=`echo $LANG | cut -d. -f1 | tr _ -`

# Note:

# It's possible ( very low possibility ) that Firefox dont have a version for your system language

# In this case you need to edite "OSLANG" variable.

OS="linux64"

# Get firefox from mozilla.org page

wget -O /tmp/FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=${OS}&lang=${OSLANG}"

# Creat a folder to hold firefox instalation

mkdir -p ${HOME}/apps-local

# Decompress the tar bz2 file to firefox instalation folder

tar -xvjf /tmp/FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 -C ${HOME}/apps-local

# Create ~/bin folder in case not exist yet, and add path to .bashrc

mkdir -p "${HOME}/bin"

LINE='PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"'

FILE=/home/$USER/.bashrc

grep -q "$LINE" "$FILE" || echo "$LINE" >> "$FILE"

# Creat simbolic link to firefox

ln -s ${HOME}/apps-local/firefox/firefox ${HOME}/bin/firefox

# Creat NEW profile folder (this script don't mess width your old profiles or snap profiles)

if [ -e ${HOME}/.mozilla/firefox/profile-???????? ]; then

# Profile creat from this script exist

PROFILE=`ls ${HOME}/.mozilla/firefox/ | grep profile- | head -1`

else

# Option to creat unique ID for your profile if not exist

ID=`uuidgen | cut -d- -f1`

mkdir -p ${HOME}/.mozilla/firefox/profile-${ID}

PROFILE=`echo profile-${ID}`

fi

# Firefox version

VERSION=`cat ${HOME}/apps-local/firefox/application.ini | grep Version | cut -d= -f2 | head -1`

# Creat Mozilla-Firefox.desktop file

cat > ~/.local/share/applications/Mozilla-Firefox-build.desktop << EOF

[Desktop Entry]

Version=${VERSION}

Name=Firefox Mozilla

Comment=Web Browser Firefox Build from Mozilla

GenericName=Web Browser Firefox

Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer

Exec=${HOME}/apps-local/firefox/firefox --profile ${HOME}/.mozilla/firefox/${PROFILE} %u

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=${HOME}/apps-local/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png

Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;

StartupNotify=true

EOF

# Restart gnome shell. Mozilla-Firefox-build.desktop will apear in gnome menus

busctl --user call org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell Eval s 'Meta.restart("Restarting…")'