Package Details: mullvad-browser-bin 14.0.9-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/mullvad-browser-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: mullvad-browser-bin
Description: Privacy-focused web browser developed by Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project
Upstream URL: https://mullvad.net/en/browser
Keywords: browser firefox mullvad privacy private
Licenses: MPL-2.0, GPL-3.0-or-later
Conflicts: mullvad-browser
Provides: mullvad-browser
Submitter: tarball
Maintainer: tarball
Last Packager: tarball
Votes: 56
Popularity: 6.86
First Submitted: 2023-04-03 14:58 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-04-01 16:44 (UTC)

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tarball commented on 2025-03-12 18:00 (UTC)

Please discuss bugs here before reporting them upstream, especially if they can't be reproduced with the original tarballs. Some bugs are caused by packaging issues and need to be fixed here. We can always escalate upstream if necessary.

tarball commented on 2024-06-26 08:35 (UTC)

Make sure to fetch the developers' signing key before building the package.

The official instructions are here. The link is also mentioned in the PKGBUILD.

If the site is blocked in your region, you'll have to work around it or trust me that this is what it says:

% gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys torbrowser@torproject.org

which (as of 2024-06-26) should also show this fingerprint:

EF6E 286D DA85 EA2A 4BA7  DE68 4E2C 6E87 9329 8290

If your gpg says otherwise, you may have been fed garbage.

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tarball commented on 2024-06-28 21:43 (UTC)

Thanks for the research. The browser does indeed look up libavcodec.so with sonames version 53 through 60, and the latest ffmpeg only provides version 61.

Here is a test video; installing ffmpeg4.4 fixes it. I updated the package.

underuse_storage commented on 2024-06-28 21:10 (UTC) (edited on 2024-06-28 21:16 (UTC) by underuse_storage)

I recently was unable to reproduce H264 videos and AAC audio on my desktop, both from Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser.

Because video playback on Mullvad was working just fine on my laptop, I started looking for differences between the two machines. I found out that on my laptop, I also had installed the ffmpeg4.4 library. As soon as I installed ffmpeg4.4 on my desktop, video and audio playback were fixed.

I believe this issue started with the latest ffmpeg update from the Arch Repo.

Do you think ffmpeg4.4 should be added as a dependency for this package?

pvmab commented on 2024-06-26 12:29 (UTC)

That did it. Thank you.

tarball commented on 2024-06-26 08:35 (UTC)

Make sure to fetch the developers' signing key before building the package.

The official instructions are here. The link is also mentioned in the PKGBUILD.

If the site is blocked in your region, you'll have to work around it or trust me that this is what it says:

% gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys torbrowser@torproject.org

which (as of 2024-06-26) should also show this fingerprint:

EF6E 286D DA85 EA2A 4BA7  DE68 4E2C 6E87 9329 8290

If your gpg says otherwise, you may have been fed garbage.

pvmab commented on 2024-06-25 22:28 (UTC) (edited on 2024-06-25 22:53 (UTC) by pvmab)

m@m-woof ~/Downloads/mullvad/mullvad-browser-bin $ makepkg -si ==> Making package: mullvad-browser-bin 13.5-1 (Tue 25 Jun 2024 05:19:28 PM CDT) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Downloading mullvad-browser-linux-x86_64-13.5.tar.xz... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 98.4M 100 98.4M 0 0 830k 0 0:02:01 0:02:01 --:--:-- 1561k -> Downloading mullvad-browser-linux-x86_64-13.5.tar.xz.asc... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 833 100 833 0 0 783 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 783 -> Found mullvad-browser.sh -> Found mullvad-browser.desktop ==> Validating source files with sha256sums... mullvad-browser-linux-x86_64-13.5.tar.xz ... Passed mullvad-browser-linux-x86_64-13.5.tar.xz.asc ... Skipped mullvad-browser.sh ... Passed mullvad-browser.desktop ... Passed ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... mullvad-browser-linux-x86_64-13.5.tar.xz ... FAILED (unknown public key E53D989A9E2D47BF) ==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!

sgrue commented on 2024-05-22 08:18 (UTC)

Ah thx, mullvad-browser-bin does work indeed!

tarball commented on 2024-05-22 08:13 (UTC)

You're trying to install the wrong package. mullvad-browser builds from source and hasn't been updated in a while. This is mullvad-browser-bin.

sgrue commented on 2024-05-22 08:10 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-22 08:12 (UTC) by sgrue)

When trying to install the browser, I receive a download error (404):

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://cdn.mullvad.net/browser/13.0.6/src-firefox-mullvad-browser-115.5.0esr-13.0-1-build3.tar.xz Aborting... Failed to build mullvad-browser

Ur-Nammu commented on 2024-05-18 13:11 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-18 13:14 (UTC) by Ur-Nammu)

For those getting an error message while importing PGP keys:

gpg: keyserver receive failed: No data -> problem importing keys

From: Verifying Mullvad Browser signature

Using the following command, as root, fixed the issue:

gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys torbrowser@torproject.org

morganava commented on 2024-04-15 17:42 (UTC)

(Presuming updating mullvad-browser is left up to Arch's package manager and not the browser's self updater)

You all may be interested in following https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41083 and its associated issues and MRs. With respect to ignoring the updater, the 'right' way to do this is to add a particular file in the install directory. See this comment for specifics: - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42482#note_3019228

This will be the supported way for downstream packagers to disable the updater and manage their own updates from the 13.5 series on.

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