[Setting up Debian #9] Waterfox / Firefox / Thunderbird: in-depth manual installation guide
0:00 Intro
0:37 Overview of installation methods
6:39 Booting up the VM
8:23 Downloading .tar.bz2 files from the websites
11:11 Downloading .tar.bz2 files from the command line
12:24 Following Linux conventions
21:12 Unofficial Waterfox repo, AppImages etc.
25:05 Continuing on the topic of following Linux conventions
26:25 Creating ~/opt and ~/opt/bin directories
28:11 Adding ~/opt/bin to PATH
33:07 Changing XDG user directories
38:45 Installing a dependency: libdbus-glib-1-2
41:56 Installing the apps
42:00 Downloading .tar.bz2 files
42:50 Extracting .tar.bz2 files, moving the extracted contents to ~/opt
46:33 Linking the binaries to ~/opt/bin
49:58 A few words on using these apps from the command line
52:17 Data directories: ~/.waterfox, ~/.mozilla/firefox, ~/thunderbird
55:45 Default profiles
58:05 A few words on transferring profiles from another machine
1:00:13 Launching profiles from the command line (and from GUI)
1:05:48 Back to the topic of transferring profiles from another machine
1:07:41 Creating new profiles
1:08:21 Sharing extensions between profiles
1:21:27 Information on how to create menu shortcuts
1:23:22 Self-update demonstration
1:24:55 Configuring tiling / maximizing / floating of windows in awesome window manager
1:28:44 Outro
Links:
Waterfox: https://www.waterfox.net/
Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Firefox Developer Edition: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/devel...
Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
Install Firefox on Linux - Firefox Help: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/...
Installing Thunderbird on Linux - Thunderbird Help: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/...
Unofficial Waterfox repo: https://github.com/hawkeye116477/wate...
Why is installing WaterFox so hard on Linux? - Reddit: / why_is_installing_waterfox_so_hard_on_linux
How to properly install Waterfox on linux system-wide with automatic update working - Reddit: / how_to_properly_install_waterfox_on_linux
firefox updater won't work (on linux) - Reddit: / firefox_updater_wont_work_on_linux
What is the user equivalent of the global /opt directory? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...
Silence "ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment." warning when not needed - Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug...
XDG user directories - ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_...
Firefox: stop making that Desktop directory! - Arch Linux Forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.p...
Permalinks to latest versions:
Waterfox: https://cdn1.waterfox.net/waterfox/re...
Firefox: https://download.mozilla.org/?product...
Firefox Developer Edition: https://download.mozilla.org/?product...
Thunderbird: https://download.mozilla.org/?product...
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