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| From | "OSnews" <osnews@bbs.alt119.net> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.misc |
| Subject | Mozilla creates Firefox ppa and .deb package |
| Date | 2024-01-23 23:29 -0300 |
| Organization | ALT119 |
| Message-ID | <d511548ce7fee49ce195ab8a600f7405@bbs.alt119.net> (permalink) |
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 Debian-based distribution). If you've heard about Linux, which is known for its open-source software and an alternative to traditional operating systems (OS), and are curious to learn more, here are four reasons why you should give our new Firefox on Linux package a try. ↫ Gabriel Bustamente and Johan Lorenzo It';s a ppa and .deb package straight from Mozilla itself, so you don';t have to to rely on your distribution';s maintainers (as long as you use a Debian-based distribution, that is). Do note, however, that some distributions actually make changes to the default Firefox code, such as Fedora enabling things like Wayland-by-default and hardware-accelerated video decoding long before those became default in Firefox-proper. By using Mozilla';s package, you';ll lose all of these changes. As a sidenote, Mozilla';s instructions for enabling the ppa and installing the .deb are a bit... Dubious, though. https://www.osnews.com/story/138436/mozilla-creates-firefox-ppa-and-deb-package/
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