Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
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Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#2"Considering that it remains the dominant web browser for Linux"
Is this actually true ? These days I use FF as my primary browser, but that's recent after a conscious (ethics driven) choice to switch. I kinda got the impression most people are just installing Chrome after install.
Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#3"Considering that it remains the dominant web browser for Linux" Is this actually true ? These days I use FF as my primary browser, but that's recent after a conscious (ethics driven) choice to switch. I kinda got the impression most people are just installing Chrome after install.
It's the standard browser on many distros so if we just count installations it's probably true.
Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#4Tangentially related, Firefox-from-snap completely broke for me recently in a way that I couldn't be bothered to diagnose ("error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/firefox: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory").
It prompted me to finally wipe Snap fully from my system and install Firefox from the Mozilla PPA. The only other Snap app I currently use is IntelliJ, and that has issues in its Snap packaging according to the mighty Serge, so I'm switching to a tar.gz install for that.
Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#5Tangentially related, Firefox-from-snap completely broke for me recently in a way that I couldn't be bothered to diagnose ("error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/firefox : dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory"). It prompted me to finally wipe Snap fully from my system and install Firefox from the Mozilla PPA. The only other Snap app I currently use is Intelli…
## app-conf/apt/nosnap.pref
# To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of snap,
# this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
### Remove snapd applications and service
snap remove --purge firefox
snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004
snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
snap remove --purge bare
snap remove --purge core20
snap remove --purge snapd
apt-get remove --yes snapd
# This will prevent snapd from any repository
Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#6Tangentially related, Firefox-from-snap completely broke for me recently in a way that I couldn't be bothered to diagnose ("error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/firefox : dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory"). It prompted me to finally wipe Snap fully from my system and install Firefox from the Mozilla PPA. The only other Snap app I currently use is Intelli…
I have never had a snap package I've installed that I didn't have to immediately uninstall and find the .deb for because the snap ran into a bunch of weird issues. I hate snap I hate whoever thought it was a good idea and I hope they constantly have bump in their sock that they are unable to fix that does not relieve until the day they get rid of snaps.
Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#7Certainly agree it's not intended to be for everyone, but I haven't noticed many crashes running nightly. Would be nice to go to print with numbers
Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#8Ahh... my two favorite tech-related subject matters: Linux distros and the politics of browser choice. I'm currently trying to invert this entire discussion by putting a well-oiled Linux distro inside of the browser [1].
[1] For whoever doubts that a proper Linux distro can be created through pure Javascript running in a browser, you obviously haven't tried out https://linuxontheweb.github.io/ yet!
Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#9Tangentially related, Firefox-from-snap completely broke for me recently in a way that I couldn't be bothered to diagnose ("error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/firefox : dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory"). It prompted me to finally wipe Snap fully from my system and install Firefox from the Mozilla PPA. The only other Snap app I currently use is Intelli…
I have never had a snap package I've installed that I didn't have to immediately uninstall and find the .deb for because the snap ran into a bunch of weird issues. I hate snap I hate whoever thought it was a good idea and I hope they constantly have bump in their sock that they are unable to fix that does not relieve until the day they get rid of snaps.
That's really too kind to the snap designers.
Re: Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
#10"Considering that it remains the dominant web browser for Linux" Is this actually true ? These days I use FF as my primary browser, but that's recent after a conscious (ethics driven) choice to switch. I kinda got the impression most people are just installing Chrome after install.
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I know of a handful of distros that bundle Chromium (e.g. Q4OS) or Chrome (e.g. Linux Lite) but almost every Linux that provides a browser provides Firefox as the default, AFAIAA.