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if you want a newer firefox use flatpak, don't pollute your system with unofficial debs or source installs
by kiney 1y ago
if you want a newer firefox use flatpak, don't pollute your system with unofficial debs or source installs
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoThese kinds of statements suit servers with high availability requirements but really shouldn’t be made without context. Adding the Mozilla Debian Firefox repos probably won’t break anything catastrophic, and the time cost / risk of containers is non zero too. I’ve had more trouble and time wasted with snap Firefox than I’ve had with official Mozilla repos under both Debian and Ubuntu.
- kiney 1y agoflatpak is not snap
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoThe point still stands.
- kiney 1y agoit doesn't because flatpak has basically zero of the problems that snap has (slow app start, forced updates ...). It just works and keeps your system clean.
- pkulak 1y agoFirefox is the one app that I want in my base system. Maybe it’s better now, but I always seem to run into some issue with the Flatpak. Usually because some other Flatpak app wants to log in and something goes wrong between all the redirects between the apps that that entails.
- bassdart 1y agoThe Mozilla Firefox-Repo is really a bad example for convincing people to go away using Debian package repos: You can even install Firefox-ESR and Firefox Stable and Firefox Beta (and maybe Firefox Nightly, haven't tested it) from the Debian- and Mozilla- Repos in parallel.