Why would anyone install a proprietary freeware browser?
It’s a very usable browser and vivaldi explicitly do no AI, unlike firefox. I get that firefox is the only serious cross platform competitor to chromium, but mozilla really does consistently shoot itself in the foot. it’s like they’re masochistic.
edit: vivaldi also actually seems to have a vision and design goals, which firefox sort of lacks.
because it’s what the normals like
Windows five minutes after installing a web browser: “Welcome to Edge! We’ve imported your tabs from Chrome for you.”
Image isn’t loading for me. I get:
Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image/process.webp?src=0364be98-3ccc-4357-9b10-21eeb3f15e30.webp): operation timed outsudo pacman -Syu librewolf-binerror: target not found: librewolf-binIt’s in the AUR.
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flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-community
F this
I would rather use edge to install chromeUse gnome-software and install flatpaks or official apt packages instead of the snap store
No thanks, I like snaps
Genuine question; what is it about them that appeals to you? I used them for a while as a few things on kubuntu defaulted to snap but after a while I kept running into different issues that don’t occur on the flathub/deb counterparts so I’ve cut them out for the most part.
I don’t like them, but I’d like to remind my fellow Canonical-Haters to not become User-Haters instead. It’s okay to have preferences, but let’s not antagonise each other.
That said, flatpak > compiling from source > writing from scratch > writing with binary editor > not having it at all > snap
I don’t get it. What’s this supposed to tell me?
it’s a parody of the memes where it’s typing commands for 20 minutes to install a web browser
Windows users setting up a local account
I mean you can still get that experience on Ubuntu if you want to install Firefox as an apt package instead of being forced to install it as a snap package.
“forced to do what now” - mint users
Both are official and work well so there isn’t really a need for it. But some people just want to make their experience harder because snap bad.
No, the Firefox snap genuinely is awful. It takes forever to load and runs like ass.
I understand that. I actually used the snap one for a long time but then was having issues with it crashing a lot and switched over. I doubt most have the same issues I was having.
I was just pointing out that if you want to make it difficult for yourself, you can haha.
Too many screens and clicks. Where’s my single-click browser install? Linux will never become mainstream on the desktop.
That’s mostly the browser, isn’t it? I’m old and cant follow this but it looks like the install is one click and then its theme choosing and other first-startup stuff in the browser?
Might be. It’s a deeply sarcastic comment. 😊
no, it should just know what browser I want. it should read my minds or whatever. do you expect me to take those 5 whole clicks?
Agreed. I stand corrected. Fuck those clicks.
I want just rawr
There’s just the one
flatpak install flathub net.waterfox.waterfox
apt get install lynx -yflatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-communitybrew install --cask waterfoxwinget install firefox
I do have comments, I guess I’ll contact Tim Berners-Lee.
Technically, you’re still downloading it, even if your package manager does it for you. And, tbh, even on Debian stable it needs some user action (including a visit to Mozilla’s site) to get an actual version of Firefox and rolling upgrades installed instead of the LTS version.
My OS came with an officially packed (by Mozilla) non LTS version of Firefox that gets regular version upgrades.
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Ubuntu unity was so good :(
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