Yeah, it really is impossible to tell what Chrome is doing. It even adds Google's repositories in an install script, which freaks me out.

Speaking of Google Chrome, I just saw this article today:

Google makes the perfect case for why you shouldn't use Chrome

Yeah, it really is impossible to tell what Chrome is doing. It even adds Google's repositories in an install script, which freaks me out.

Is that with .deb ?

But hey, the big G offers a Chrome .deb that should be compatible with Devuan. The telemetry for that makes FF looks like a paragon of privacy but you know that, right?

If I used it at all, I would only use Google Chrome in a VM. I installed it once on my main system, and noticed some odd behavior after doing so. It might have been a coincidence, but the strange behavior went away after I became suspicious and uninstalled Google Chrome, so I am inclined to believe that Google Chrome was somehow responsible.

Great news. Firefox-esr has just been updated. Current version- 91.4.1esr

Took my precautions as I anticipated profile hell but the update was painless!

[0] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firefox-esr
[1] https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20211218

Found the requested (up above) link for Firefox-ESR - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/a … esktop-esr

I think it was Zephyr who mentioned what he does; which is, what I do...

1. Create a hidden folder in my Home folder called .firefox
2. Download the tar.bz2 from the official Mozilla site
    Note: I personally click on Download options and other languages in order to download Firefox-ESR
3. Extract it into the created .firefox folder
4. Create a firefox.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ (so that it appears in my menu) that consists of the following information...

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox
Exec=apulse /home/dan/.firefox/firefox/firefox
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;
Icon=firefox

If you notice the Exec= line, it leads off with apulse. I don't use pulseaudio, so you'll need to have apulse installed if you also don't use pulseaudio but want things like YouTube to have sound.

So, no matter which version you may "install", it will update itself automatically and independently from the repos of your system.

please share the link you used as FF want to give me the .tar.gz and not the .deb!

Mozilla puts its .deb files for Firefox-esr in a ppa on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

You can just grab an individual .deb file for Ubuntu 20.04 or 21.04 - should work fine on Devuan. Click "View Package Details" and select a version to try. The main .deb file will be a roughly ~50mb file (or more) for that version that will probably be at the bottom of the version's web page. The rest are language packs and debug symbols.

I wouldn't recommend adding the ppa to your sources, since they do tend to introduce a bunch of Ubuntu-only files as well. But the individual .deb files are all there and should work fine as a stop-gap until Debian's next version is available. Or until you see the light and add Bedrock Linux to your system to access the Ceres .deb files.