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This is a welcome addition for Chromebooks, because now you can install latest Firefox (not ESR) in Crostini without using Flatpak. Sadly Mozilla still doesn't
by m45t3r 3y ago
This is a welcome addition for Chromebooks, because now you can install latest Firefox (not ESR) in Crostini without using Flatpak.
Sadly Mozilla still doesn't offer `aarch64-linux` builds for Firefox in their official channels, so for those that have a ARM64 Chromebook will still need to use something else to get Firefox running (I use Nix, but it needs some complicated setup to work with hardware acceleration, for example, using nixGL).
- a1o 3y agoHey, do you know a good resource to learn how to compile a binary for Linux Arm64 that works in a Chromebook? I would like to port some C code I have that I produce builds for x86 and Amd64 debian using GCC 4.8 and an old debian, I am curious what has to be done to produce a binary that would run the same in Chromebook.
- nolist_policy 3y agoParent is probably refering to the dev linux environment, which is just Debian in a vm with seamless wayland/X11/file/usb passthrough. So just target Debian 11 and 12 arm64. If you compile on an older version of Debian it should work fine too.
- ajross 3y agoYou're not supposed to have to do anything at all. Crostini on an ARM Chromebook is literally just aarch64 Debian, pointed at the upstream apt repos for basically all of its binaries.
- mderazon 3y agoHow's your experience with Firefox in ChromeOS compared to Chrome ? Doesn't it feel second class ?
- m45t3r 3y agoSince my Chromebook is not really powerful, yes, Firefox feels like a second class citizen. But I imagine in a better Chromebook it should work better.