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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.

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Insanity 1y ago
Yeah same.. I have no clue where it was hosted and been using it for 2 decades too.
jchw 1y ago
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 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozil...
- notfed 1y ago
  In other words, the download page used to be: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
  - jraph 1y ago
    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.
TheLML 1y ago
Last time I downloaded it it must've been the mozilla website
tech234a 1y ago
I always liked https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ but that's not the primary consumer page.
- aspenmayer 1y ago
  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.
  - pixxel 1y ago
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  - HelloUsername 1y ago
    > 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 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677497#c0
    - aspenmayer 1y ago
      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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Insanity 1y ago

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

jchw 1y ago

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 1y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozil...

notfed 1y ago
In other words, the download page used to be: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
- jraph 1y ago
  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.

TheLML 1y ago

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

tech234a 1y ago

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

aspenmayer 1y ago
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.
- pixxel 1y ago
  [dead]
- HelloUsername 1y ago
  > 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 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677497#c0
  - aspenmayer 1y ago
    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.