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The Mozilla Blog - Mozilla’s new Firefox Linux for Debian derivatives (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 10 months ago by UNIX84 to c/foss

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Mozilla now has an official Debian repository for running the latest Firefox releases.

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[–] ThermoToaster@exng.meme 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Why not sooner? And what about RPM based distros?

[–] UNIX84 2 points 10 months ago

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.

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