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Announcing Faster, Lighter Firefox Downloads for Linux with .tar.xz Packaging! (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Why do they not just ship normal packages (.deb, .rpm, etc.) or an official flatpak that functions properly?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Flatpak is official.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But it doesn't work properly.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How doesn't it work properly for you?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doesn't go full screen on media correctly. Leaves the media the same size and adds massive grey bars to the receiving screen space. Interestingly, the flatpaks of every Firefox-based browser I've tried do the same.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think the "etc" shows how f***ed up it might be to package for every single distro. Releasing a tar with no extra bloat and letting each community doing its own things over it is probably one of the best approaches?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    But it makes finding a properly functioning official package more difficult for newer users, and really the etc. was superfluous. You only really need .deb, .rpm, and whatever arch uses. There is a flatpak, but it doesn't work properly.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I think, you've answered your own question? There's a lot of different formats for Linux. Getting them all correct and working on the different distributions is significantly trickier than just bundling a self-contained archive.

    Having said that, they do actually provide a DEB repo since a few months ago: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended

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