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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