Firefox Beta from AUR vs Web?

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I’m aware there is a Firefox-beta in the AUR. Also of course there is at least Stable in the official repos. I’m wondering, if I want to use Firefox Beta does it work to download the binaries from Mozilla as I understand the client just updates itself? Or is it a better idea to go through the AUR and update it that way? I just worry that like many Firefox packages in AUR they become abandoned.

If Beta is just not a good idea for Manjaro I can always just use the official repos as well. What do you recommend?

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Yes, you could. Extract it to your Home folder and go. The beta is designed to run side by side a regular stable installation with a separate profile.

Installing everything via an OS’s package manager ensures the proper dependencies are installed and there are no conflicting files.

I think you’re safe. :wink:

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First Submitted: 2010-07-07 03:05
Last Updated: 2021-01-27 02:37
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Thanks for the answer. In your personal preference, would you pull from the AUR or would you just get the binaries so the client updates itself?

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I would install the AUR package for the reason I mentioned above. Pamac will let me know when there’s an update.

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we have firefox-developer-edition it’s usually the same version as beta (not today :pleading_face:)

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