Debian (stable release) ships Firefox ESR by default. This version of Firefox lags behind the regular release. Those who wish to use up-to-date Firefox on Debian could install the flatpak version. This script will:
- Install the flatpak version of Firefox.
- Install ffmpeg-full to fix a video lag bug.
- Install fonts.conf to fix a fuzzy font bug.
I have not tested the script on other systems, but it should also work on other branches of Debian (e.g. testing, unstable) and other Debian-based systems (e.g. Ubuntu).
This script requires that the flatpak package is already installed system-wide. It can be installed by executing the following as root or superuser:
apt update
apt install flatpak
- Download the script setup-firefox-flatpak to the Debian system.
- Make the script executable:
chmod +x setup-firefox-flatpak. - Execute
./setup-firefox-flatpakfrom the directory where the script is located to install it for the current user.