will finally ship with a DEB package for Debian-based distributions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.