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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by rubyist5eva on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:36PM (#31139324)
Mozilla doesn't directly offer a .deb file. They offer precompiled binary tarballs for Linux. Mozilla doesn't make distribution specific packages as far as I am aware and it was Canonical that was packaging it for all of their supported distributions. It's less work for Canonical now to package Firefox, and Mozilla has more control over pushing updates so it's mutually beneficial for them.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by jeroenhd on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:06PM (#31140300)
Isn't https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa managed by Mozilla? They have the name and the logo.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by rubyist5eva on Sunday April 24, 2022 @10:32AM (#31144357)
No, it is not managed by Mozilla. It's a separate, independent group of people - and for this reason you should not use this PPA.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by michaelmrose on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:11PM (#31139582)
Does ubuntu actually package it. Don't they just re-use debians work like 99% of their distro?
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