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The only thing missing is a continued commitment to privacy and liberty.
What has changed since the infamous “We Need More Deplatforming (2021)”[1] article by CEO Mitchell Baker? I absolutely can not move past this and I think Mozilla needs to make a strong commitment to our civil rights.
1. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
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…
Hey, 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.
They don't seem to be packaging the LTS version, Firefox ESR. Am I missing something? Is there a separate Mozilla repository for that?
They don't seem to be packaging the LTS version, Firefox ESR. Am I missing something? Is there a separate Mozilla repository for that?
They're already done by the Debian people.
Is there more technical information than this article provides? Did Firefox not have a .deb package until now? It's been a few years since I used Ubuntu, but I find that really surprising. I'm not sure what this new package is or how it differs.
* In the ancient past, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Ubuntu distributed Firefox as a .deb * Recently (well, in the last 2-4 years) to boost the uptake of Canonical's "snap" packaging system, Ubuntu switched to only distributing Firefox as a snap. * There are a lot of snap haters around. Not least because canonical fucked up the update mechanism in the first year or two, had a bunch of performance problems (now mos…
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You didn’t have to wait for this new Firefox package to stop using snaps, did you?
The Firefox deb in the repos redirected and did a snap install or some weirdness at least at some point.
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The Firefox deb in the repos redirected and did a snap install or some weirdness at least at some point.
Must have been an Ubuntu problem. I install Firefox via Debian's package, and have never had 'snapd' installed.
I wonder if they’ll keep this up permanently. Tempted to switch (maybe I can remove my system’s Snap infection), but redoing bookmarks and extensions (and getting my ublock config and OneTab bookmarks) is a pain. And I’ll have to figure out how to not lose my passwords this time. What a pain.
~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox
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Disabling auto-updates on Ubuntu/Debian is, obviously, just a configuration option.
What is that option? I would love to disable firefox auto-updates.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades
For Snap [1]
snap refresh --hold=forever firefox
snap refresh --hold=forever
[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates
[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/930593/how-to-disable-autore...
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They're already done by the Debian people.
Yeah but that's not necessarily a good thing. Packaged browsers from a package repo don't have the best track record. I mean they are fine but there's a reason why some want their packages to come from the people who actually made the software especially in this case. Does the ESR Debian package support updates without asking for restarts? Granted it matters less for esr but if it avoids the issue , why not.