Well, some Debian derivatives have been moving to .deb alternatives for the current browser -- snap or flatpak -- which may be the reason for them creating "official" .debs for recent releases. (Experience with the snap and flatpak versions has been ... less than completely smooth for some users.) Not sure that's the case for the ESRs yet.
Yeah but that's not necessarily a good thing. Packaged browsers from a package repo don't have the best track record. I mean they are fine but there's a reason why some want their packages to come from the people who actually made the software especially in this case. Does the ESR Debian package support updates without asking for restarts? Granted it matters less for esr but if it avoids the issue , why not.
Ahhh I wasn't familiar with this package in particular. I just have had a bunch of ... weird issues dues to some quirks in some packaged browsers. Basically it was never a standard install, and it sucked for ironing out issues. Glad to hear the Debian packages are doing great, not surprised either!
> there's a reason why some want their packages to come from the people who actually made the software
Not necessarily either. Think of the Audacity fiasco. We were very comfortable using the Debain package but not their Flatpack and obviously not the snap. I realise I'm replying to a subtext but the context is the same.