I recently picked up a Chromebook that uses a arm64 CPU. After enabling crostini it provides a debian 12 environment. However I can’t find any easy way to install Firefox on it (or the host system). All the official sources either provide esr (which is horribly out of date) or x86 builds.
Firefox is available in the Google Play store, but that is the mobile version and very clunky to use with a keyboard and trackpad.
I tried sid packages as suggested in the link below, but installing firefox through those caused the debian 12 environment to not boot entirely if I dare reboot after installing firefox. Firefox /Debian /ARM64? - Super User
Have you tried any other web browsers based on Firefox, like Librewolf? The only other web browser I can suggest is Chromium. Since you are using Google Play, Chromium should be available.
I just had a look at Librewolf, but unfortunately it doesn’t fit my needs, as currently the password manager I use is the one integrated in Firefox. I know this isn’t ideal, but I have yet to find better free alternatives.
I can’t do better than the Nightly beta-test edition, which you can add via their apt repository. Instructions are off the announcement page from April 2024.
Nightly should be solid for firefox.com accounts and their password sync’ing.
K3n.
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