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What's the minimum effort way (i.e. without switching to another distro) to a) receive timely updates for Firefox b) without this bullshit?

Sure, I can kill firefox, run the updater manually, then restart it, every time I see this popup, but that's pretty tiring.



Go to firefox.com, download the tar.bz2, extract to /opt/firefox, and give yourself recursive ownership. Firefox will update itself.


Install Firefox from Flatpak. It comes straight from Mozilla, and it gets updates immediately.




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