Where was it before? Been using Firefox non stop for 20 years but last time I went to the website was probably when I still used Windows XP.

▲ tech234a 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I always liked https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ but that's not the primary consumer page.

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aspenmayer 5 days ago | parent [-]

I hear that they don’t embed tracking metadata in those builds on the FTP, but I haven’t confirmed that.

The normal download page embeds a unique tracking alphanumeric string in your build that is reported to the organization on a regular basis when the telemetry phones home unless you disable this manually and clear the values.

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HelloUsername 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> I hear that they don’t embed tracking metadata in those builds on the FTP, but I haven’t confirmed that.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677497#c0

	▲	aspenmayer 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for that authoritative source. Is Firefox a honeypot? I can’t see how this serves the user. All telemetry should be opt-in, not opt-out. We want failsafe, not faildeadly.

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pixxel 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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▲ jchw 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe it was getfirefox.com, which I remember primarily from adding banners to websites I ran back in the day. I forgot who previously owned firefox.com but I recall them adding a link to getfirefox.com on it back in the day.

▲ rafram 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozil...

▲ notfed 5 days ago | parent [-]

In other words, the download page used to be:

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

	▲	jraph 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		And mozilla-europe.org in Europe for some reason, a long time ago at least. At a time when you'd also install spybot and ccleaner.

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▲ Insanity 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah same.. I have no clue where it was hosted and been using it for 2 decades too.

▲ TheLML 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Last time I downloaded it it must've been the mozilla website