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You can also use the Flatpak version:

https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox

Unfortunately the container breaks certain extensions (e.g. keepassxc-browser). And that's ignoring the fact that, at least on my machine, the flatpak fonts look terrible for some reason and I often run into issues with the Gnome theme not being properly inherited.

I've been using the Debian packages supplied by Ubuntuzilla (despite their being hosted on gag Sourceforge): https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntuzilla/

Try flatseal and see if you can tweak the permissions.

Re: terrible look, I face the same thing with Telegram (the mouse reverts to whatever is the default in Qt and ignores the system settings). I haven't been able to fix that.

This is what fixed the cursor for me (Linux Mint Cinnamon, HiDPI):

  sudo flatpak override --env XCURSOR_THEME=DMZ-White
  mkdir -p ~/.icons/default/cursors/
  cp -R /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/. ~/.icons/default/cursors/

When installing distro, I usually remove some included packages and install newest Firefox, LibreOffice, Gimp, Inkscape etc from Flatpak, because Flatpak has newest versions. Many packages do not update .deb anymore, they have moved to Flatpak.

I had some weird performance issues. Tried it side by side and flakpak version ran significantly worse. Not sure why

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