Hi,
I am a user of Fedora, Firefox and Firefox GNOME theme. I find it annoying that each month, the new firefox version breaks the theme, and that I have to wait for the new version of the theme, and install the theme again manually.
As I am a lazy person, I would prefer to do this once a year.
For this kind of use-case, would it be possible to make firefox-esr available in fedora ?
Thanks!
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/beno/firefox-esr/
If you want to do it manually you can download esr from mozilla website and install manually. Which is not recommended.
I’m afraid this reason cannot justify the amount of work required to maintain yet another browser package.
This is a couple orders of magnitude more difficult than writing a simple script to set up a theme and apply it automatically after upgrading the package.
Follow this guide
Install manually download 102esr from mozilla website
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US
Keep in mind that static builds leave a larger window for possible vulnerabilities as it is more difficult to track and install updates.
Yes and it is not recommended at all. Do at your own risk
I can recommended a different and secure route that is use snap Install firefox on Linux | Snap Store to install firefox esr. Snap apps are generally snadboxed but does not follow os theme.
sudo dnf install snapd
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
sudo snap install firefox --channel=esr/stable
thanks for the honest answer !
Good to know ! However I am not a fan of snaps. I’ll just continue with the default firefox for fedora until the release of debian 12.