New Firedragon version!

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Install 11.8.1. :rofl:

Back in business, you can download from the same repo.
Autohide buttons are back, new Floorp “Workspaces” section back.
Weird stuff seems to be gone.

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Firedragon is not in https://builds.garudalinux.org/chaotic-v4/garuda/x86_64/.

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Maybe a server or build pipeline error. Either way that’s fine, today another version will be pushed.

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Its getting promoted :smiley:

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We needed to change its name to firedragon-next in preparation for setting our CI-managed repo live. This would force everyone to use the new version, so choosing another pkgname (since this is for testing purposes anyways) was the logical decision.

https://builds.garudalinux.org/chaotic-v4/garuda/x86_64/firedragon-next-11.8.1-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

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No no no! That’s all wrong, it’s the OLD version! The new one is MUCH better and faster! That guy needs to be advised to redo another review shortly… :smile:

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I am tempted to daily-drive the new Firedragon, but the only thing that is pulling me back is that it’s based on Firefox ESR. I suppose it takes eight months for ESR to catch up with the standard monthly releases.
How do you feel about it?

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Great! Loll

As anything else it depends what you need.
Since ESR gets security updates and Floorp takes care of a bunch of good stuff too, the added stability of ESR on top sounds good.

Feature-wise I haven’t seen a difference with regular FF, for MY personal usage. But some people have very specific requirements that may be better answered by regular FF. We don’t believe it’s “that” common. We could be wrong.

If you can name features/security the regular FF has but not ESR and are crucial to you, then you know you don’t feel great about ESR if there is no alternative for your required features.

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I can think of one potential advantage with using the ESR version of Firefox/Floorp. Mozilla has quite a few times in the past introduced changes that have broken support for many Firefox extensions.

In the past this has often meant that if you updated to the new Firefox version, many of your favorite Firefox extensions might be broken. When this happens you might have to wait for many months before the developer gets around to updating their extension to work with the newer versions of FF.

At least using the ESR version of Firefox you will have a cushion of time to allow the extension developers to make their extensions compatible with new Mozilla changes. Some FF extensions I just can’t live without, and using the ESR as the base just might mean you’ll experience less breakages to your favorite FF extensions down the road.

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Anything in particular I need to do to install this when I’m already using the new firedragon? Pacman didn’t like me trying to just install from the new link. Perhaps this should be mentioned for others in the same situation?

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Plz try again with the link in his post.

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error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
firedragon-next: /usr/share/psd/browsers/firedragon exists in filesystem (owned by firedragon)

Do I need to do the whole “stop psd” thing again?

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No it probably won’t work.

I find that error weird, cuz I fixed it today and the latest package was not asking to do that. PSD has been deactivated temporarily while we make the transition of packages, I can hardly image why it says that.

Could you post your pacman terminal command you issued?

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sudo pacman -U https://builds.garudalinux.org/chaotic-v4/garuda/x86_64/firedragon-next-11.8.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
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Must be 11.8.1-5
As per the link here

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Ah, that fixed it, that’s on me for being lazy and not checking the exact version again lol, sorry. Though I suppose now I have 2 new firedragons, and I should delete the non “-next” one.

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Not for now.

Also when you launch the -next, you have to launch firedragon-next, not firedragon.
There is an icon for firedragon-next in the app menu, otherwise from terminal it’s just firedragon-next.

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Yeah, that’s how I saw that it was a duplicate, currently trying to port over profile from old new firedragon as it didn’t seem to do so “auto-magically”.

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That’s the plan! People need to start from a new Profile, it is more than highly suggested.
It’s a struggle cuz for some people there’s a lot to port over, but we don’t change our Firedragon base on every release! :rofl:

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Latest installed, and tabs at the bottom as I prefer, and slowly adding my extensions. Should mention using the command in NuclearDragon’s post and simply switching the 3 for a 5 Firedragon-next installs without issue but it is in the app menu as Firedragon not Firedragon-next. If launching from Terminal then firedragon-next works.

Now as for profile FGD is correct you should create a new profile just for Firedragon-next, cause trying to sync it with another Firefox-based browser or trying simply try to copy the contents from your profile from another Firefox-based browser to your new profile folder in Firedragon-next could break things, cause there are items in your profile that are specific to that iteration of the browser.