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

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 13:39:49 UTC 2024


On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 at 18:57, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> the Linux
> Mint Firefox is not snapstuff, it is, apparently, flatpack (the IKEA
> version of Firefox?), rather than a .deb package.

No it is not. This is incorrect and I feel you should have checked first.

It's a native package and they are very proud of it.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244

I wrote about it at the time:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/12/mint_203_mozilla/

To check all you have to do is type:

flatpak list


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