Article: Firefox providing .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu users.

[Jim Byrnes]

On 1/27/24 12:55, Bret Busby wrote:


> On Linux Mint Mate v21.2, running Firefox for Linux Mint mint-001-1.0 
> 122.0 (64-bit), with multiple Ad-blockers, including AdBlocker for 
> YouTube and Adblock Plus (which apparently also blocks ads on youtube) 
> and Bluhell Firewall and uBlock Origin (and others), I have no problem 
> in accessing youtube videos.
> 
> As the thread subject refers to Firefox .deb packages, whilst the Linux 
> Mint Firefox is not snapstuff, it is, apparently, flatpack (the IKEA 
> version of Firefox?), rather than a .deb package.
> 

I don't think Firefox is a flatpak on Mint, at least on my Mint system 
is is not. You can list your flatpaks in the terminal by doing
flatpak list.

I think Mint builds it's own .debs, an article I read mentions now Mint 
will be able to save some time by not having to build its own .debs.

Regards,  Jim