Firefox dev edition could not update automatically - issue when manually installed in linux (fedora) (solved)

Pika Pool — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:00:42 +0000

I installed the firefox dev edition by extracting the tar file from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ at /opt/firefox_dev_edition.

But when an update was available, firefox showed me this error:

Update available
Firefox couldn't update automatically. Download the new version - you won't lose saved information or customizations.

Turns out the /opt/firefox_dev_edition directory was owned by root user, which resulted in Permission denied error when firefox tried to update itself. So, I changed the owner to the main user, which I use the system through:

chown -R "$USER":"$USER" /opt/firefox_dev_edition

This command changes both the user and the group of the directory and all of its files and sub directories recursively(the -R option is an alias for --recursive)

[Fedora 35] Asus Tuf Laptop internal speakers/mic not working on fresh install

Pika Pool — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:11:43 +0000

I have an ASUS Tuf FX-705DT laptop. I dual booted fedora 35 alongside Windows 10 recently, and I was having a audio issue.

The issue was that neither the internal speakers nor the mic worked. There was no audio, and the system had the volume option disabled.

I found the fix here, in a stackoverflow answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/1277167

I basically created a file called /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, with the text: options snd-hda-intel model=asus-tuf.

I still don't understand what the actual issue was or what this file or the text mean. I hope to understand one day. But until then, this solution will have to do

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Firefox dev edition could not update automatically - issue when manually installed in linux (fedora) (solved)

[Fedora 35] Asus Tuf Laptop internal speakers/mic not working on fresh install