

Īs you can see from the screenshot gallery below, the Firefox Developer Edition was successfully tested on the Fedora 25, Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), and openSUSE Tumbleweed distributions. The Flatpak is built on Red Hat's internal build cluster and available at. While currently ditching the standard Firefox web browser as a Flatpak because it doesn't bring a lot of benefit at the moment, they created a testing, unofficial Flatpak for the Developer Edition, which is not all that accessible to most Fedora Linux users.

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"We’ve tested the FDE flatpak on Fedora 25, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, and Ubuntu 16.10." Not sandboxed, Firefox Developer Edition has full access to user’s home I’m finally happy to announce Firefox Developer Edition for Flatpak," said Jiří Eischmann. "Our team maintains Firefox RPMs for Fedora and RHEL and a lot of people have been asking us to provide Firefox for Flatpak as well. Red Hat's desktop engineering manager Jiří Eischmann proudly announced today, January 5, 2017, the general availability of Mozilla's Firefox Developer Edition web browser as a Flatpak package for various Linux distros supporting the technology.Īccording to the developer, whose team is responsible for the RPM packages of Mozilla Firefox for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems, the most requested thing by users was a Flatpak package, which is a universal binary format allowing application developers to distribute their apps across multiple Linux OSes.
