streaming video playback is sometimes broken, filesystem interaction crashes the browser etcįirefox on crouton - this was great for a while, but sadly crouton is no longer maintained, so latest versions of ubuntu arent officially supported (even though you can still install them), which means potentially more issues like on chromebrewįirefox on breath - haven't tried this yet personally, but intend to soon. Not sure what the experience is like on high end ones.įirefox on chromebrew - definitely faster than crostini, but lots of other issues since it is a third-party hack. It's clear that it's not meant for a laptop.įirefox on Crostini - extremely slow on basic chromebooks. The window can be resized by dragging the border, and the position/sizing is remembered after closing the window, but no fix has been found for the underlying issue which I understand is related to differences between Mozilla and chromeOS in their Wayland implimentations.įirefox on Android - you already use this. They launch in full screen Window mode but with no full screen button - only minimise and close. By putting the sktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ the launch icon appears in the apps launcher and I have it pinned to my desktop shelf.īTW, just an afterthought: there is a known graphics glitch affecting all Mozilla-based apps in Crostini. firefox (to make it hidden), made ~/.firefox/firefox executable, and created a sktop file which points to the executable and the icon png file. I extracted the firefox*.tar.bz2 package into my home folder as. It's a bit more work to install in Crostini but once done it just works. However, rather than rely on Debian, I prefer to run the Linux stable release (currently 101) downloaded directly from Mozilla. Firefox-ESR has moved to 91 in the Bullseye repo (sudo apt install firefox-esr), which provides the most user-friendly installation in the chromeOS Linux environment, and of course Debian passes Mozilla security updates for firefox-esr via apt updates. I'm not a fan of Android apps running on my entry level x86-64 Chromebook (versus my ARM phone/tablet experience) but Linux apps are great.
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