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by nequo 1335 days ago
Firefox ESR is available in a PPA that is maintained by Mozilla. Even though that's a third party, that's as close to an official package as it gets.

I'm just hoping that it will remain available until this snap thing subsides, or until I make the switch to GNU Guix or something.

Edit: It seems that the latest stable Firefox is available, too.[1] I thought it was only ESR and that Ubuntu's switch to snap was requested by Mozilla. I'm confused.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+pack...
2 comments
nvrspyx 1335 days ago
It seems like they've been including stable, non-ESR builds for at least the last few releases (I only went back a few pages of previous builds). Launchpad is confusing for me, but my impression is that they're using that PPA to build the stable release using the Launchpad service and then packing that build as a snap. It seems like they're just uploading the snap package rather than building it using Launchpad.

If that's the case, maybe it's a limitation of Launchpad?

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glandium 1335 days ago
AFAIK, that PPA is not maintained by Mozilla. Source: I work for Mozilla.
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nequo 1335 days ago
That ... is good to know. Do you know if Mozilla takes issue with it being called "mozillateam" then?
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severino 1335 days ago
That's what I was afraid of about that PPA (and every PPA I ever used): you can never be sure who's behind a PPA, and who may push an update there :-)
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