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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by acqq on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:35PM (#20999199)
> All of the various Linux distributions just repackage those binaries

Debian and Ubuntu don’t build from sources?

Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by throwaway170919 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:22PM (#21000216)
They do.

You can notice by looking at the build time in the version string.

This makes it impossible to share a profile between two GNU/Linux distributions (or even the official binary and the distribution binary) without hacking with the current versions, even if they are effectively the same version: one will complain that the profile has been run with a more recent version.

(But I sure expect and want my distributions to rebuild Firefox - I trust Debian for making sure no bit of proprietary code is here, and makes tracking opt-in, more than Mozilla)