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

[Bret Busby]

On 29/1/24 21:39, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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
> 
I appear to have misconstrued one of your articles that you had 
published about Linux Mint, where, from memory, you had said something 
like the use of snap in Ubuntu, has been replaced with the use of 
flatpack in Linux Mint.

It goes back to the article that you had published, that caused me to 
trial Linux Mint. Which particular article, that involved, I do not know.

Then, whilst I may have misconstrued that, my contention that I believed 
that it was not that the .deb version of Firefox, was causing the 
problem of "YT videos now are all blocked ", but, more likely, that it 
was something to do with the particular installation of Wade Smart 
(which, now, cannot be checked, as that installation was deleted, rather 
than repaired, resulting in the fault being unresolved), seems to be 
validated.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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