Firefox is officially available as a Flatpak

Spacesurfer · April 7, 2020, 3:40pm

https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox

reC · April 8, 2020, 1:21am

great ! now install LibreJS and go visit that site again

vmedea · April 13, 2020, 12:52pm

It’s convenient to be able to run a cutting-edge firefox on PureOS this way, the only drawback seems to be that it doesn’t pick up the GNOME theme.

joao.azevedo · April 13, 2020, 1:59pm

Flatpaks in general don’t pick up the host system theme, you need to install the same theme via flatpak

vmedea · April 13, 2020, 2:15pm

Thanks, I never even thought about installing a theme inside flatpak, but I’ll try that.

joao.azevedo · April 13, 2020, 2:16pm

this is a good link about theming flatpak applications: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/how-to-get-flatpak-apps-to-use-correct.html

vmedea · April 13, 2020, 3:17pm

Thanks, that seems easy. Unfortunately, my theme (Avidity-Grape) is not currently available as pre-packaged flatpak.
It’s likely better to make a flatpak file and install that. However I managed to hack around this for now with a manual copying hack.

Richard · April 13, 2020, 3:27pm

Upsides: Official upstream package with support and flatpak sandboxing.
Downsides: Theming and font issues due to the inherent nature of flatpaks.

Not an exhaustive list and am only comparing to flatpak version vs regular distro build.