Package Details: mullvad-browser-bin 14.0-1

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: 42
Popularity: 3.24
First Submitted: 2023-04-03 14:58 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-18 17:45 (UTC)

Pinned Comments

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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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.

tarball commented on 2024-04-15 17:36 (UTC) (edited on 2024-04-15 17:46 (UTC) by tarball)

edit: looks like system-install will be enough pretty soon, see @pospeselr's comment for more info. That file is already being created by the PKGBUILD.

Thanks, I'll look into that shortly and add it if it helps.

The usual place for this is policies.json (see this nix config for an example), but I tried that (along with all the other options that have any relation to updates) and it didn't make any difference.

deron commented on 2024-04-15 17:30 (UTC) (edited on 2024-04-15 17:30 (UTC) by deron)

Disabling auto-updates (about:config > app.update.auto) fixed the UpdateInfo issue for me (so far).

texer22 commented on 2024-02-29 10:44 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-29 10:45 (UTC) by texer22)

After an update it does not update the file in /user/UpdateInfo/updates/.. It still shows "pending". https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/229 "@foter @Giger22 Please note that the packages from the aur are community provided, and we don't offer support for it.

Could you please contact the mullvad-browser-bin maintainer and pass your comments directly to them?"

tarball commented on 2024-01-19 16:26 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-23 15:55 (UTC) by tarball)

edit: GitHub releases lag behind the official CDN for about an hour, but I think it's worth it to cover the less fortunate among us (myself included).

Hmm... the browser targets the privacy-conscious audience which might not appreciate sending their requests to Microsoft.

I've been having the same problem actually, so I understand your pain completely. Mullvad's servers are partially blocked and the rest is throttled here for providing a VPN service, which forces me to use a (trusted) proxy.

Let's see if anyone else cares enough to vote for or against this.

If not, I'll probably change the URL when 13.0.9 is released (which is likely to happen in a couple of days).

The binary is signed anyway.

<deleted-account> commented on 2024-01-19 16:13 (UTC)

Could you please change the source URL to GitHub? The cdn.mullvad.net server is very poor and downloading from East Asia always fails.

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