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by lewantmontreal 1053 days ago
Any way to get Firefox ESR without untrusted third party flatpacks? On normal firefox you can’t run your own extensions…
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It's not third-party, it's a flatpak built by Mozilla and pushed by them to Flathub.
It's actually easier than what the document shows you: Once you get to the Debian shell do apt-get install firefox-esr instead of installing the flatpack. I assume they don't tell you that, because then you end up with the Debian build of Firefox instead of the Mozilla's
The Debian package of Firefox is maintained by a Mozilla employee :)
I am said maintainer. Note that's not part of my work at Mozilla, and that doesn't make the Debian package endorsed by Mozilla as the way to get Firefox on Debian.
Thank you for maintaining the deb!
Sorry for assuming both of these, it wasn't clear that they aren't true.