• PushButton@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Wow, they are going to zip it with a different algo. That’s fucking amazing!

    Faster installation, I don’t know what I will do with all that extra time!

    Plus, faster downloads, that’s even more free time.

    Mozilla really know how to innovate.

    Best company evvvvaaarrr

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    13 days ago

    Who’s not using a package manager? Except for LFS, for which you should compile it yourself.

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      Most normal users do not do this. But there might be special packages with special setups, like scripts downloading and installing from Mozillas download links. Or package creators themselves might use it. Or maybe you are a developer, in which case such direct downloads would be helpful for testing and comparing stuff. I also assume most people do not care or notice any difference with this change. Still its an improvement without much drawback and thats always good, even if its only a few people benefiting of it.

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        12 days ago

        Yeah, particularly for downloading Firefox Nightly, these self-contained archives are extremely helpful.

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        12 days ago

        And sometimes -bin AUR packages (and of course some normal packages, behind the scenes) use those packages as base. Even though I prefer normal or -git packages.

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      On Ubuntu I use the tar.bz2 version to not have to deal with snaps or extra repositories. Also on Debian Stable to get the latest version.

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        If you don’t want to deal with snaps being forced down your throat, why are you still on Ubuntu?

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        I use the flatpak on Fedora but have used the tar version in the past because the package managed version is hijacked with stupid Redhat bookmarks and homepage that loves to return after being removed randomly.

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      I don’t. I have installed Firefox manually for many years across several distros now, albeit for different reasons. For example:

      • Debian only has Firefox ESR in the Bookworm repo. I want the latest mainline version.

      • Bazzite only offers it via Flatpak, which breaks functionality I need such as native messaging.

      I see no problem installing it manually. It keeps itself updated and has caused me zero problems.

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      11 days ago

      I highly suggests all Ubuntu users to use the vanilla Firefox version downloaded from Mozilla. It’s way better because it’s not a Snap package.

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    12 days ago

    The .tar.xz format decompresses more than twice as fast as .tar.bz2, allowing you to get up and running in no time

    $ time tar xjf firefox-134.0b3.tar.bz2 
    
    real    0m9.045s
    user    0m8.839s
    sys     0m0.450s
    
    $ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz                                                
    
    real    0m4.903s
    user    0m4.677s
    sys     0m0.510s
    

    Nice! Presumably it’d be twice as fast if disk was infinitely fast or something. Unfortunately by testing this I’ve already used up a hundred times more time than I’ll ever save as a result of it.

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    13 days ago

    Fixing their damn sandbox would be something truly useful.

    Implementing a fork server so Flatpak AND Android Firefox can stop being fucking insecure for no reason.

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    Why do they not just ship normal packages (.deb, .rpm, etc.) or an official flatpak that functions properly?

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    Interesting, I always assumed they would be using a pretty optimal algorithm with their .tar.bz2 format, because they obviously benefit quite a bit from smaller downloads. Good to know that .tar.xz is actually better.

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    11 days ago

    Yes, use the format that was almost backdoored a few months ago! I’m sure it has a very strong development team behind it! /s

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        My point is that it had an overworked maintainer who was easily persuaded into giving the project to someone else. I highly doubt it has gotten a solid team behind it now.

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          It wasn’t “easy” at all, they had to put in over 2 years of useful contributions before there was chance to insert the malware. If you’re worried just stay on an older version, it should still open new files perfectly fine.

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    11 days ago

    What? More compression?

    Here I am wondering why in 2024 we don’t have the option to automatically decompress downloaded files like Apple users supposedly can.

    Ahh well, I guess that’s why these designers don’t work for apple. They’re not good enough.