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
Give 2 millions bonus to that CEO!
Well, now you mention it, the motivation here may be to reduce their bandwidth costs? Probably not 2 million, but every € counts…
It’s a little boring but not bad news. Why the hate?!
Who’s not using a package manager? Except for LFS, for which you should compile it yourself.
NixOS packaging pipeline will benefit from this
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.
If you don’t want to deal with snaps being forced down your throat, why are you still on Ubuntu?
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 0m0.510sNice! 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.
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.
Why do they not just ship normal packages (.deb, .rpm, etc.) or an official flatpak that functions properly?
I think the “etc” shows how f***ed up it might be to package for every single distro. Releasing a tar with no extra bloat and letting each community doing its own things over it is probably one of the best approaches?
But it makes finding a properly functioning official package more difficult for newer users, and really the etc. was superfluous. You only really need .deb, .rpm, and whatever arch uses. There is a flatpak, but it doesn’t work properly.
The Flatpak is official.
But it doesn’t work properly.
How doesn’t it work properly for you?
Has no filesystem sandbox whatsoever. They just pretend it is fine, causing uBlue devs and others to think it is okay to remove native Firefox
Doesn’t go full screen on media correctly. Leaves the media the same size and adds massive grey bars to the receiving screen space. Interestingly, the flatpaks of every Firefox-based browser I’ve tried do the same.
Certainty, this is a you problem.
All this under wayland?
Yeah
Interesting, I always assumed they would be using a pretty optimal algorithm with their
.tar.bz2format, because they obviously benefit quite a bit from smaller downloads. Good to know that.tar.xzis actually better.XZ is quite slow for compression when single threaded. When run in parallel it uses a significant amount of RAM. It creates some of the smallest files and is fast to decompress compared to other well-compressed alternatives.
Source: https://linuxreviews.org/Comparison_of_Compression_Algorithms
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.
