4 reasons to try Mozilla’s new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives | The Mozilla Blog
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Great news for Linux users, after months of testing, Mozilla released today a new package for Firefox on Linux (specifically on Ubuntu, Debian, and any Deb

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

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
      26·
      11 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

        • BurnedDonut
          4·
          11 months ago

          I hate snaps and flatpacks equally. They really cause more problems than they solve for new users.

      • comicallycluttered@beehaw.org
        6·
        11 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.

    • UNIX84@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      11 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.