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This is kind of a strange complaint. You’re using Linux but you don’t want to use the version packaged by your distro, yet you’re uncomfortable opening a standa

This is kind of a strange complaint. You’re using Linux but you don’t want to use the version packaged by your distro, yet you’re uncomfortable opening a standard tarball and following the intructions within? Yet you’re complaining that Mozilla didn’t go the extra mile for your obscure situation.

dheera 9y ago
I'm used to the assumption that my package manager is out of date. It usually is (e.g. it still has only OpenCV 2.4). I have a huge pile of PPAs to solve that ...
- NiceGuy_Ty 9y ago
  I on Fedora and the latest version is available via dnf. But still I use nightly, and all I had to do to j install it was untar it into my opt directory and symlink the binary.
  - mcny 9y ago
    > I on Fedora and the latest version is available via dnf. But still I use nightly, and all I had to do to j install it was untar it into my opt directory and symlink the binary. What is your strategy with updates? Do you give yourself permission to write to opt or do you run Firefox Nightly as root once a day so it can update iself? I tried the latter for a few weeks and grew tired. I can't wait for containers to come to Firefox stable (which is the feature I am looking forward to the most in nightly).
    - r3bl 9y ago
      I mean, it doesn't have to be in your /opt/ folder, you can put it anywhere and add it to your $PATH. I did however give myself permissions to /opt/nightly/, where my binary and the rest of its files are.
      - mcny 9y ago
        I think official deb and rpm repositories would still be nice.
- blaze33 9y ago
  On Ubuntu 17.10 I got the update to Quantum only a few days after the official release, works quite well, no need to look for a PPA.
- deleted 9y ago
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- Sylos 9y ago
  Ubuntu ships Firefox updates independent of its normal release schedule, so you should always have the latest version there, shortly after the official Firefox release. But you might want to consider a different distro with more up-to-date packages anyways. It'll be consistently tested with those more up-to-date packages, so would most likely be more stable than your attempt to rejuvenate Ubuntu LTS or whatever distro you're using exactly.

dheera 9y ago

I'm used to the assumption that my package manager is out of date. It usually is (e.g. it still has only OpenCV 2.4). I have a huge pile of PPAs to solve that ...

NiceGuy_Ty 9y ago
I on Fedora and the latest version is available via dnf. But still I use nightly, and all I had to do to j install it was untar it into my opt directory and symlink the binary.
- mcny 9y ago
  > I on Fedora and the latest version is available via dnf. But still I use nightly, and all I had to do to j install it was untar it into my opt directory and symlink the binary. What is your strategy with updates? Do you give yourself permission to write to opt or do you run Firefox Nightly as root once a day so it can update iself? I tried the latter for a few weeks and grew tired. I can't wait for containers to come to Firefox stable (which is the feature I am looking forward to the most in nightly).
  - r3bl 9y ago
    I mean, it doesn't have to be in your /opt/ folder, you can put it anywhere and add it to your $PATH. I did however give myself permissions to /opt/nightly/, where my binary and the rest of its files are.
    - mcny 9y ago
      I think official deb and rpm repositories would still be nice.
blaze33 9y ago
On Ubuntu 17.10 I got the update to Quantum only a few days after the official release, works quite well, no need to look for a PPA.
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Sylos 9y ago
Ubuntu ships Firefox updates independent of its normal release schedule, so you should always have the latest version there, shortly after the official Firefox release. But you might want to consider a different distro with more up-to-date packages anyways. It'll be consistently tested with those more up-to-date packages, so would most likely be more stable than your attempt to rejuvenate Ubuntu LTS or whatever distro you're using exactly.