[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start

[Cody Smith]

To get around those I use something called "appimagelauncher", there's deb
files for it on their GitHub page, and an older ppa.

Appimagelauncher integrates appinages rather nicely. I'd imagine it could
be set as default if it sets it as a web browser for the app type (should
be easy enough to set it as once in the .desktop file appimagelauncher
creates)

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 5:03 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 at 23:34, <jeff at cjsa.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree. Using the ubuntuteam ppa was the first article I ran across to
> > replace the snap package.  I was just about to remove it and install
> > directly from Mozilla itself when I had this idea to try the old tarball
> > installation, which worked.
>
> OK.
>
> I still use Unity and Firefox no longer integrates with its menu bar,
> so I use Waterfox instead.
>
> This led me to discover an issue I've not seen discussed, but others
> may find noteworthy.
>
> Waterfox sadly does not have an official .deb but there is an
> Appimage. I like Appimage, which for me fixes most of the issues of
> both snap and flatpak.
>
> But, and it's a big "but", while the Appimage works fine and
> self-updates, which is great, it has 2 snags, one big and one small.
>
> Small: no app icon in the Unity dock.
>
> Big: you can't set it as the default browser because the OS doesn't
> "know" it is there. It's not in the system app database.
>
> #2 is a deal-breaker for me.
>
> I don't know if this affects you.
>
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