On Sun 05 Sep 2021 at 19:31:32 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 08:56:36PM +0200, Oliver Schoede wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:50:06 +0200 > > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > > >Version 91 is only in experimental. > > > > > > > Probably blocked by some Rust stuff again. Anyone who's waiting and if > > possible please get a flatpak and get on with your life. Debian is > > providing that for a reason, too. We've been at the same point about a > > year ago when on some mailing list it was suggested Debian should just > > provide a flatpak. A joke of course, well I think it was. Still I > > decided to actually give it a try and have been happily using two of > > these since then, Firefox, and Chromium, which itself is too often > > vulnerable in Sid. Perhaps in the future distributions should really > > consider making do with, say, Firefox ESR and direct users who need > > "more" to something anyone can sort of agree on and flock together, > > that might well be avenues like Flatpak or AppImage. Container > > solutions are certainly not the be-all and end-all but I don't see much > > of a drawback for a case like this. You'll spend about a GiB extra, > > it's basically pulling its own small userland, once. Command line use > > needs some getting used to, kind of like systemd, hardly surprising if > > you know where it's from. But easy enough, same with desktop > > integration. There's no sane reason for using an outdated web browser > > today. If you want or need to stay purist, there is always ESR. > > > > Oliver > > > > This is the problem with web browsers getting bigger, more complex > dependencies, more infrastructure complexities - and it has always > been so. Web browsers are also the go-to applications for stress > testing any machine once again.
There aren't any extensive problem with Firefox on buster and bullseye. Mine works, reliably. Maybe there are reports that say otherwise? > Flatpaks and appimages are fine if they can be built - there's every > chance that they, too witll be hit by this sort of thing at some > point. Why bother with what Debian does not provide by default. -- Brian.
