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this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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That's good news for the more specifically Ubuntu-based distributions and their users. I trust that Debian will continue to build its own packages.
Yeah, really happy about this. $WORKPLACE uses Ubuntu and the Snap is just mildly broken in multiple ways. The .tar.bz2 works, but we would have had to script the download + creation of the .desktop file. We successfully procrastinated doing the latter long enough, that Mozilla fixed it.
It may still be nice to have a reference implementation. For example maybe they can see if there are extra hardening options that they can enable or adopt the more seamless update flow.
Interestingly, just today I switched Firefox from a snap to a deb due to the limitations of the former on Ubuntu.
I had some issues that happened on debian and not on firefox nix package, maybe debian packaging is not great and this can help improve it.