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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by siwatanejo on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:44PM (#31140826)
Debian providing Firefox debs for a long time? I think you are very wrong because Firefox is not even called this way in Debian, it's IceWeasel.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by blihp on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:52PM (#31140878)
Your information is outdated. It hasn't been called IceWeasel for a while now and that only had to do with a trademark issue[1] but it was still based on the Firefox sources. Source: running Firefox via .deb (firefox-esr in the Debian repo) on Debian stable to write this.

[1] IIRC, it had to do with using the Firefox name even though Debian was lightly modifying sources to remove a couple of things. This was resolved a while ago and the Firefox branding resumed.

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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by rubyist5eva on Sunday April 24, 2022 @10:31AM (#31144345)
Last time I tried Debian they only provided packages for the current ESR release - Canonical wants to provide the latest stable release.
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