Pyra without decent web browser?


It seems flatpak gave up on armhf but I see snap on rpi4 has the latest firefox/1.22. But I share the authors concern.

Because I hate upgrading os's (since often they are forced) I have been struggling with obsolete browsers for a long time. That's why I went through the hell of compiling mozilla from source. On macs often the browser is the hair that breaks the camels back and forces you to buy new hardware. Actually I used to run vm's specifically for browsers.

A decent sandbox package manager could keep Pyra usable much longer.

I use flatpack mostly for unfortunately necessary commercial software.

$ du -sh /var/lib/flatpak/app/*|sort -h
23M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.github.AmatCoder.mednaffe
62M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu
137M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.telegram.desktop
241M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.mozilla.firefox
293M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.spotify.Client
300M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.chromium.Chromium
663M /var/lib/flatpak/app/us.zoom.Zoom
 
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It seems flatpak gave up on arm32 but I see snap on rpi4 has the latest firefox/1.22. But I share the authors concern.

Because I hate upgrading os's (since often they are forced) I have been struggling with obsolete browsers for a long time. That's why I went through the hell of compiling mozilla from source. On macs often the browser is the hair that breaks the camels back and forces you to buy new hardware. Actually I used to run vm's specifically for browsers.

A decent sandbox package manager could keep Pyra usable much longer.

I use flatpack mostly for unfortunately necessary commercial software.

$ du -sh /var/lib/flatpak/app/*|sort -h
23M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.github.AmatCoder.mednaffe
62M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu
137M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.telegram.desktop
241M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.mozilla.firefox
293M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.spotify.Client
300M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.chromium.Chromium
663M /var/lib/flatpak/app/us.zoom.Zoom

Have you considered using docker for your needs?
 
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