Would to see them publish stable releases via this apt repository as well.
Looks like that will happen later. From Mozilla’s original article:
Following a period of testing, these packages will become available on the beta, esr, and release branches of Firefox.
I read that, but I don’t know if that means they will publish stable releases via the same repository. That just sounds like the packages themselves will end up being in those channels (which makes sense, nightly becomes beta, which becomes a release, which ends up as esr). It doesn’t necessarily mean this apt repository will be a release channel itself.
That said, there is the Mozilla Team PPA.
Ah yes good point. Fingers crossed.
Brilliant
Take that Ubuntu and your PPA that use to not drive people to your snap package!
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And you think no money changed hands to make that the official stance? Because that’s the only reason them taking such a stance would ever make sense.
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That they would do something against the good of the people, tis all the proof you need.
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donate to them and they won’t have to seek funding elsewhere
Good to see development effort going towards actual Firefox and not those random Mozilla products that I can’t keep track of
Do you mean products like their VPN? They really need the revenue to try and become more independent from Google. Right now something like 90% of their income comes from a deal with Google to make Google the default search engine.
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I mean, the alternative to the Google deal is to not have money to operate, which isn’t ideal.
Ah yes, in the same way I choose to eat food rather than starve.
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You seem confused.
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kinda wish they would put nightly on fdroid too instead of just google play or through the website
Doesn’t Firefox use GCM? I think fdroid doesn’t allow apps that use that
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While Mozilla has always produced Firefox Nightly builds for Linux as traditional binaries, they have finally decided to offer up an APT repository of Firefox Nightly builds to make it easy to stay up-to-date with new Firefox Nightly releases on Debian and Ubuntu Linux based distributions.
Mozilla announced today they have setup an APT repository as an easy option for using Firefox Nightly on Ubuntu/Debian-based platforms.
The Firefox Nightly Debian packages will also see better performance thanks to extra compiler optimizations, additional security hardening with extra security-related compiler flags, and easily stay up-to-date now via the APT package management.
Eventually the packages will become available for Beta, ESR, and release branches of Firefox from this APT repository too.
More details on this long overdue Firefox APT repository via Mozilla.org.
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You don’t even build from source?
What kind of Linux users are you?
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Never built Firefox from source but Chromium takes way longer than the kernel for me. Like half an hour on a 5800x3D. Bit much for nightly updates.
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Some day they will offer linux version that you can download from from the website and install without using terminal.
Whilst I agree that that’s a nice option to have (more options are usually better!) I’ve come to love the linux way of distribution via repositories. These days I barely use the cli too: GNOME software and KDE’s Discover are great. Perhaps an official nightly flatpak would be best?
Appimage? So we go behave like windows users?
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snitching to Mozilla every single time you launch the browser
It’s only for the first run, to track downloads and installations. Pretty much every mobile app on both Android and iOS, and a lot of desktop apps, do the same thing as they want to know how many people install (and uninstall) their app.
It’s also only if you download the installer from the Firefox site, so Linux repos are unaffected.
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All I was saying was that the unique download ID is only used once, not every time you start Firefox. I wasn’t making any other claims as to what other analytics they use.
Having said that, Telemetry is important to making a good product. The developer needs to know about crashes and what causes them (to fix bugs), which features people are using the most and least (to know what to work on and what to potentially deprecate), etc. As long as it’s anonymous, I don’t see a problem in that?
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IP is considered as PII.
Sure, but a lot of systems don’t actually store it. Even if they do, erasing the last octet (for IPv4) or the last 32 bits (for IPv6) is sufficient to de-identify it.
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You can’t guarantee it is isn’t stored somewhere
OK, but what do you expect companies to do about this? There’s literally no way to browse the web without revealing your IP address. Are you saying that every single company online is collecting PII?
Even just checking for updates (which happens in the background with all modern software) would connect to Mozilla’s servers.
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No amount of in-house testing is going to catch everything that can be experienced on a nearly-infinite amount of hardware/software configurations that are tested once a large userbase gets a hold of a product.
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I do wonder why billion dollar companies (or in the case of NASA, an organization that AFAIK is still funded directly by the government) can afford to do this.
I’d also argue that extremely rigorous testing is a bit more important in terms of life-or-death scenarios for the companies that you mentioned, rather than Mozilla - but hey, that could just be me.
I mean come on, your comparison might work for a company that can hold a candle to the ones you mentioned (ie, Google or Apple) but how large do you think Mozilla (who still has to take handouts from Google essentially) is? Even then, I’d still say it’s probably a bad comparison given my second point.
Yeah, embedded systems for military applications is exactly the same as consumer software. You’re right.
tell me you’re not a decent software developer without telling me you’re not a decent software developer
Deb monoculture is a sick plague
WAT?
I can not make sense of this comment at all. Can you explain what it is you mean?
He’s complaining that only Debian packages were released, which are compatible with most of popular distros.
Ask ChatGPT
I am sure there will be a aur package soon bundling this deb into a arch package. So nothing to worry about (for the good package managers)
Hehehe. What about RPM users? This fragmentation in Linux packaging robs users of choice.
Would rather have Firefox setup a repository for the nightly channel, after all they official maintain the stable channel on Flathub.
That way everyone benefits from the utility.
So how many debian packages with firefox are now available? debian sid, stable, testing & firefox nightly?
