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

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.

> 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

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.

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.

In other words, the download page used to be:

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

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.

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

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