Package request: mercury-browser-bin

[redxtech]

Project description

Mercury is a firefox fork that implements patches that focus on speed, security, and privacy.

Highlights:

• Compiler optimizations include AVX, AES, LTO and PGO.
• Learn more about these compiler optimizations and how they work Here.
• Patches and UI changes that enhance useability, and strengthen privacy/security. Many of these come from LibreWolf, Waterfox, PlasmaFox, and GNU IceCat

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://thorium.rocks/mercury
• source URL: https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury
• license: MPL-2.0
• platforms: unix, linux, (unsure if it will build on darwin, they don't release prebuilt binaries for it and I can't test it)

[ProminentRetail]

I wanted to try Mercury out of curiosity and built this:

package.nix

```nix { lib , stdenv , fetchurl , autoPatchelfHook , dpkg , wrapGAppsHook , alsa-lib , browserpass , bukubrow , cairo , cups , dbus , dbus-glib , ffmpeg , fontconfig , freetype , fx-cast-bridge , glib , glibc , gnome-browser-connector , gtk3 , harfbuzz , libcanberra , libdbusmenu , libdbusmenu-gtk3 , libglvnd , libjack2 , libkrb5 , libnotify , libpulseaudio , libva , lyx , mesa , nspr , nss , opensc , pango , pciutils , pipewire , plasma5Packages , sndio , speechd , tridactyl-native , udev , uget-integrator , vulkan-loader , xdg-utils , xorg }: stdenv.mkDerivation rec { pname = "mercury-browser"; version = "115.4.0"; src = fetchurl { url = "https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury/releases/download/v.${version}/mercury-browser_${version}_amd64.deb"; hash = "sha256-78b2QEgf312TDBIy4lXzYUBtTfdNui3VJBbyDfXqOtc="; }; nativeBuildInputs = [ autoPatchelfHook dpkg wrapGAppsHook ]; buildInputs = [ stdenv.cc.cc.lib alsa-lib browserpass bukubrow cairo cups dbus dbus-glib ffmpeg fontconfig freetype fx-cast-bridge glib glibc gnome-browser-connector gtk3 harfbuzz libcanberra libdbusmenu libdbusmenu-gtk3 libglvnd libjack2 libkrb5 libnotify libpulseaudio libva lyx mesa nspr nss opensc pango pciutils pipewire plasma5Packages.plasma-browser-integration sndio speechd tridactyl-native udev uget-integrator vulkan-loader xdg-utils xorg.libxcb xorg.libX11 xorg.libXcursor xorg.libXcomposite xorg.libXdamage xorg.libXext xorg.libXfixes xorg.libXi xorg.libXrandr xorg.libXrender xorg.libXtst xorg.libXxf86vm ]; installPhase = '' runHook preInstall mkdir -p $out cp -r usr/* $out substituteInPlace $out/share/applications/mercury-browser.desktop \ --replace StartupWMClass=mercury StartupWMClass=mercury-default \ addAutoPatchelfSearchPath $out/lib/mercury substituteInPlace $out/bin/mercury-browser \ --replace 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH' "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${ lib.makeLibraryPath buildInputs }:$out/lib/mercury" \ --replace /usr $out runHook postInstall ''; meta = with lib; { description = "Compiler-optimized private Firefox fork"; homepage = "https://thorium.rocks/mercury"; sourceProvenance = with sourceTypes; [ binaryNativeCode ]; license = licenses.unfree; platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ]; mainProgram = "mercury-browser"; }; } ```

But I decided I wasn't going to use it, so I'll leave this here in case it's helpful to anyone. It seems to work just fine, but I haven't tested it very much.

[redxtech]

I'll give it a try, and if it works well, I could submit a PR adding this to nixpkgs.

[AlecsFerra]

Any news related to this?

[redxtech]

Any news related to this?

It's been working fine for me all week, I'll make a PR after I'm off work

[phrogg]

Any news related to this?

It's been working fine for me all week, I'll make a PR after I'm off work

Hey, sounds great any progress?

[redxtech]

Any news related to this?

It's been working fine for me all week, I'll make a PR after I'm off work

Hey, sounds great any progress?

Whoops, I kinda forgot about this. I have stopped using mercury in favour of just using firefox devedition, but I can change the package name and make a PR, but I'd rather not be the sole maintainer for it.

[formula-spectre]

any update on this?

[redxtech]

any update on this?

There's a PR but it's segfaulting so it's currently blocked by that

[formula-spectre]

any update on this?

There's a PR but it's segfaulting so it's currently blocked by that

ah I see

[mweinelt]

https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury/tags

Looks like it is dead, but also insufficient security posture with skipped releases like on Thorium Browser or in this case quite a number of versions behind upstream.

We will not accept that package in nixpkgs.