Firefox Folder in Home Directory

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Firefox in Clear Linux is installed directly from the Mozilla download to the home folder. If you remove the folder you won’t have Firefox anymore. See this previous thread for more details:

Firefox pulling updates from vendor

The current bundle will extract the upstream binary to your home directory when run, only if it doesn’t exist already. This will always want to update and has the permissions to do so. The firefox bundle will not update this version and relies on the auto updates. The main reason it isn’t normal to receive auto-updates, is that it’s installed to /usr. There’s two issues there, 1. no permissions for normal user to update and 2. changing installed files of the package manager is breaking behaviou…