The Mozilla Blog - Mozilla’s new Firefox Linux for Debian derivatives
The Mozilla Blog - Mozilla’s new Firefox Linux for Debian derivatives
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.
Why not sooner? And what about RPM based distros?
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
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.
i hate snaps and if any distro trys to push that on me i getting uninstalled asap