Firefox script installs x86_64 regardless of actual architecture

[alexsavage]

Description

The Firefox installation script always downloads from a URL for the x86_64 tarball:

docker-headless-vnc-container/src/common/install/firefox.sh

Line 29 in 4a30b26

FF_URL=http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/$FF_VERS/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-$FF_VERS.tar.bz2

Impact

Firefox does not run when the image is built for other targets, such as arm64.

Suggested solutions

• Use distribution-specific packages for Firefox (as with Chromium) when there is no binary tarball for the current architecture on releases.mozilla.org, or
• Omit Firefox from the image altogether if not targeting x86_64 to reduce installed size and not have an unusable desktop icon

[b1r63r]

this problem is still not resolved

[sni]

pull requests are welcome to fix this.

[b1r63r]

why not use the distro package instead of downloading that binary? it seems like a rock solid way to get the right package.

sh-5.1$ dnf list firefox*
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:13 ago on Fri Nov 14 10:30:17 2025.
Available Packages
firefox.aarch64 140.4.0-3.el9_6 appstream
firefox-x11.aarch64 140.4.0-3.el9_6 appstream

[sni]

go for it. Tbh, i have no idea why this decision was made to install FF manually.