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I'm using Chrome on my personal laptop running Debian 9 since Firefox is still a minor pain on Debian. The "firefox-esr" package is based on version 52 and it's
by smcl 9y ago
I'm using Chrome on my personal laptop running Debian 9 since Firefox is still a minor pain on Debian. The "firefox-esr" package is based on version 52 and it's become usable again (IMO) since 56.0 or so - where I switched on my Windows based work laptop. The alternatives to using firefox-esr are OK but a bit fiddly - extract a tar.gz somewhere and add to PATH or muck around with symlinks, or install via apt using an unsupported third party (Ubuntu) package source.
That's my excuse, not great but switching is on my TODO :-)
- kzrdude 9y agoInstalling it in just a directory works pretty well. It's worth it for Firefox 57 (still beta).
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- Sylos 9y agoPersonally, I keep the ESR-package installed, which means the .desktop-file and icon and such continue to be in their correct places, and then I just override the firefox-command via the PATH. So, in steps: 1. Download the tar.bz2 off of Mozilla's webpage. 2. Unpack it into a directory where you want to keep it. Make sure your user has write permissions to that directory, otherwise the auto-updater won't work. 3) In your PATH, place a file with name "firefox" and content: #!/bin/bash /path/to/where/you/unpacked/firefox/firefox "$@" 4) Make that file that you just put into your PATH executable (chmod +x /path/on/your/PATH/firefox). (I'm actually not on Debian, for me it's rather that I replace Firefox Stable with Firefox Nightly, but I don't think this makes a difference.)