Mozilla now has an official Debian repository for running the latest Firefox releases.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      This is specifically to provide a native package that isn’t a snap. RPMs are not the hell that is snaps.

      I switched over immediately on my in work machine

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        9 months ago

        It’s also for Debian Stable/Testing users who only have ESR in their repos.

        You can set up APT pinning and pull it from Sid, but I prefer not to fuck with official repos other than Backports. Even then, only if I really need to.

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      9 months ago

      I agree. There should have been an official Firefox repo from the beginning.

      I do remember twenty years ago, Firefox development was incredibly Windows-centric. At one point it felt as though Firefox for Linux was a second class citizen. This was a radical departure from the Mozilla Suite which was maybe the first major desktop software to go from close to open source. For many years afterward, as a BSD/Linux user, I continued using SeaMonkey for that reason.

      I assume having an official repo was just never a priority in the early days.