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Mozilla Firefox Switches To .tar.xz For Linux Packaging
It's not any shiny new web browser feature but Mozilla announced they are moving from .tar.bz2 packages for their Firefox Linux binaries over to using .tar.xz for a faster and lighter experience.
It's not any shiny new web browser feature but Mozilla announced they are moving from.tar.bz2 packages for their Firefox Linux binaries over to using.tar.xz for a faster and lighter experience. More details on Firefox moving to .tar.xz can be found via this Mozilla nightly blog post. This .tar.xz Linux packaging of Firefox also comes one year after Mozilla began offering an APT repository and Debian package builds of Firefox for further enhancing their Linux binary distribution experience.
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