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The only thing I really hate about firefox is the build. Building FF from scratch is a fucking nightmare. It's the only shitty package that REQUIRES python 2 for building.

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That information is outdated; I build FF from source a couple of times a week, and use python3.9 for mach's python. I do agree the build is special needs, made worse by all the rust, but of the things I really hate about Firefox, the build is pretty low on that list

The Chromium (and its derivatives) builds makes it clear they have a compile farm of unlimited compute and ram, so it's just "which kind of bad" I nowadays, I guess

A couple times a week seems excessive. Hopefully you are being paid for this madness.

Browsers seem to require an order of magnitude more effort to package than is typical that distros occasionally struggle to keep up. It's the only software in which I use upstream binaries out of preference. I assume it's a safer bet from a security and/or performance perspective.

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