Getting a more recent Firefox

I’m running NixOS 24.05, and Prime Video just stopped working, complaining I need a more recent Firefox (in reality, it needed a reset of the DRM plugin…).

My channel is https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-24.05 and firefox has version 128.0.3.

I encountered two weird issues:

  1. If I go to NixOS search, in channel 24.05, firefox is shown with version 132.0

  2. I tried a more recent tag, 24.11-pre, and in there, firefox has version 126.0

Is there an updated 24.05 or is there a bug in the search page? Shouldn’t 24.11-pre have a higher version of FF than 24.05?

What are your actions performed to update your channel?

128.0.3 should be recent somewhere around start of August, so i assume there was no update applied since then.

About the tag:
24.11pre is created before the nixos-unstable became a 24.11 (if i see it correctly).
24.11pre was created at May 22
24.05 should be when the release happend and was crated at May 31.

The actual channel name for a 24.11 rn would be nixos-unstable (as there was no branch off for 24.11 yet).

But i assume that your inital problem is in the actions preformed to update the channel. Or your system config does not use channels (e.G when you are using flakes).

Channels should be updated via nix-channel --update in case you want to update all, or ix-channel --update channel-alias in case you just want to update a specific.

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Please also make sure you haven’t installed firefox throug some other mean (i.e. imperative package management via nix-env or nix profile).

You can see where it comes from using type -p firefox.

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