Attention Linux Waterfox Users!

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I’m sure some of you are using Waterfox in favor of Firefox. In case you are updating it via tarball from the [website]( Download | Waterfox ), do you verify the downloaded file each time?

IMHO, the process described on the website is garbage, or I missed something.

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Do they really expect I’d click on the Copy hash link, create a .sha512 file, insert the clipboard content, save the file, and run the verification?

Why isn’t it possible to download the SHA file like other sites do?

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Waterfox is available as a package in Debian.

It also has a flatpak.

Both those are better than downloading a tarball

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Hmm, the only package I found is for/from openSUSE, which I dont want.

And Flatpak, I avoid that like the devil avoids holy water.

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Hi Alfred,

I’ve been having some problems obtaining shasums and have been using scripts for this purpose.

I made this script for you to obtain the Waterfox shasum, I hope it works.

Create a file with the name you want, change the directory you want in working_dir (it’s set to Downloads) and save it with this code and :

#!/bin/bash

working_dir="${HOME}/Downloads"

cd $working_dir

url="https://www.waterfox.net/download/"

# Fetch html form Waterfox download page
html_content=$(curl -s "$url")

# Extract the data-clipboard-text for .bz2 files
output=$(echo "$html_content" | grep -oP 'data-clipboard-text="\K[^"]+' | grep '\.bz2')

# Get the filename
if [ -n "$output" ]; then
    read -r hash filename <<< "$output"

    # Save the output to a .sha512 file with the dynamic name
    sha512_file="${filename}.sha512"
    echo "$output" > "$sha512_file"
    echo "Saved to $sha512_file"

    # Verify the checksum
    echo "Verifying checksum..."
    sha512sum -c "$sha512_file"    

else
    echo "Error trying to detect get sha512 on site with this bash script."
fi

Download the program to the same directory as working_dir and run the script.

I hope it’s useful.

Please note: in case of any doubt or error, always be suspicious of my script

Jorge

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Hey, you’re my man, Jorge! Thanks a lot.

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