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apt-get, bitches.And don’t forget to close the door on the way out!
The real trick is to not install anything, because Firefox comes pre-installed on most Linux distros.
pre-installed
You don’t use Arch, btw
You mean “pre-installed with most DEs”…
Well, I wanted to express that it may differ between distros, but fair point that Firefox won’t be pre-installed on the server flavors of those distros.
OUT.
This is now cool people thread.
Eh, Debian still ships ESR
I miss the days when they shipped Iceweasel.
You misspelled
pacmanyay your ass outta here
I always thought apt and apt-get is the same thing so why type more when you can less?
But then again, I’m a linux noob that only uses distros like Ubuntu.
I also like the software center thing in Ubuntu because of GUI and… um… why do I see a bunch of people with pitchforks?
apt is a newer tool that combines the functionality of apt-get and apt-cache. It’s not as backwards compatible but has a nicer more human readable output
The correct way wouldn’t be on windows I can tell you that
Imagine using Windows 😤😤
$ Flatpak install Firefox
“I used Firefox to download Firefox” - Thanos
Firefox is installed by default on my Linux distro, though
If you have Ubuntu though you still gotta uninstall the snap version of Firefox and switch it to the deb version
or enable flatpaks >:)
But still remove the snap version.
yay -S firefox
Downvote for using Windows.
I want to downvote and upvote this comment at the same time
Been thinking that there should be an option to sidevote in such cases…
sudo zypper in firefoxperfection … though dont forget x264 and x265
Good point
I always forget about winget
Is winget installed by default on Windows now?
The REAL real wax is brew/Flatpak install Firefox
Real. I just did that yesterday, uninstalled all that snap bullshit from kubuntu.
I honestly don’t understand why it’s a snap by default now. I’ve never got it to really function the way I want as a snap. Puts a sour taste in my mouth for Ubuntu altogether.
Yep. I removed the snap and installed it from tarball. Automatic updates don’t work quite right so I just wrote a bash script that runs the update process for me.
Yeah, as far as I can tell, when you right-click on an image and select “Save As…”, that’s just flat out broken on Ubuntu 22.04, due to it being shipped as a Snap.
And the Download-folder it uses, is in some random, deeply nested sub-directory of
~/snap/.The worse thing is that is not even available as a .deb anymore (or is pretty well hidden).
You can download a .tar.bz2 from Mozilla’s webpage, which you can unpack and then just launch the
firefoxbinary inside it.But yeah, if you want proper integration into the desktop environment, it takes some manual steps, which a .deb would do for you.
If you are willing to download a .tar.bz2 from Mozilla, you can also download the .deb file from the Debian repos
Yeah, sure. I still like to share this factoid, because not many people seem to be aware and it is pretty useful, if e.g. you want to quickly test Firefox Nightly or the new Thunderbird or whatever.
Especially since snaps cause tons of problems, for some reason. I actually switched to Debian a while ago because the snap Firefox kept randomly forgetting history items, cookies, settings, etc.
Actually the non GUI Snaps are good. I still prefer not to use snaps but they are well done. It’s just the software for the average user that starts to suck on Ubuntu. Their focus silently shifted to cloud and server, not desktop. And it shows
But why release it then? And with Firefox? I mean, if some weird niche application threw some errors under certain circumstances, fine, you can’t test everything. But Firefox? I mean, OSes are just browser-enablers these days and if Ubuntu sucks at this very basic thing, it’s garbage.
Canonical believes in Snap supremacy.
Legit me past week, had a misshap and had to reinstall windows, didn’t want the millions of installers so I just everything via winget
Man I love WinGet I just hope they add multi-threaded download to speed up downloads also downloading while installing other applications
Scoop is preferred as it provides versioning and user installs compared to winget which are typically machine wide and require administrative roles.
Versioned and doesn’t need admin… I’ve been happy with chocolatey, but this sounds interesting.
