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
Because the Firefox browser is open-source, we know Firefox inside and out
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Tip: you will still need to restart Firefox for the latest version.
That shows who the target group is
To state that firefox is fully compatible with flatpak is great! That is a reason to use the flatpak version of it.
Nice
It’s nice to see better performance but you could’ve just told distro maintainers what to do
Updates are fast even if you use the flatpak or distro build.
I use firefox btw
Edit: I compeltely forgot that ubuntu replaced firefox with the snap version. Is this the reason why they do it?
And, I don’t like that ubuntu replaced the distro firefox with snap but at the same time I don’t like that fedora still sticks with the distro firefox and not the flatpak version on atomics. I am nuts.
Edit2: I am not nuts! Ubuntu let’s you believe you install the apt version of firefox. Fedora shall replsce firefox with flatpak but it shall not pretend that it’s installed via rpm-ostree / dnf.
Hmm? You lose the namespace isolation, and by extension the chroot, but that’s it. It’s definitely nice to have, but to say it’s “most” of the sandboxing seems a misrepresentation. Note that some distros disable the kernel support for them by default, so that’s what they currently get regardless of Flatpak.
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That shows who the target group is
I use firefox btw
Edit: I compeltely forgot that ubuntu replaced firefox with the snap version. Is this the reason why they do it?
And, I don’t like that ubuntu replaced the distro firefox with snap but at the same time I don’t like that fedora still sticks with the distro firefox and not the flatpak version on atomics. I am nuts.
Edit2: I am not nuts! Ubuntu let’s you believe you install the apt version of firefox. Fedora shall replsce firefox with flatpak but it shall not pretend that it’s installed via rpm-ostree / dnf.
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To firefox it doesn’t seem to be too bad.
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Finally I underdtand to whom I talk, thx
Firejail is an alternative
Maybe they did it cause Ubuntu pushed them to get the snap version running 🤷