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		johnchristopher on Oct 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999) On Ubuntu/Debian, a work-around is to put Firefox on hold: sudo apt-mark hold <package-name> Will not work with snap though.

marcosdumay on Oct 14, 2022 [–]

I just download it from Mozilla and install on my home dir. This solves both the issues of Debian not updating Firefox fast enough and of them updating it too fast.

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