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Firefox 82.0+linuxmint5 is now available in all supported and affected releases (20, 19.x, 18.x).

I'd like to apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for reporting this issue to us.

Firefox 82.0+linuxmint5 is now available in all supported and affected releases (20, 19.x, 18.x).

I'd like to apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for reporting this issue to us.

It's possible that you have firejail configured in a way that it lets you access dpkg info... I'm not sure.. but it definitely did break otherwise

Other than that maybe you've got a different default shell that doesn't make the launcher fail when dpkg-query fails to run?

82+linuxmint4 ran fin for most people except in two cases: - If you used firejail the launcher failed when trying to access dpkg info and that resulted in Firefox not starting. - if your locale (LANG) wasn't fully developed (for instance en_IN instead of en_IN.UTF-8) or if it wasn't properly defined...

The fix is in Firefox 82.0+linuxmint5. That version was sent towards Mint 20. I'll post again when it reaches Mint 19.x and 18.x.

The fix is in Firefox 82.0+linuxmint5. That version was sent towards Mint 20. I'll post again when it reaches Mint 19.x and 18.x.

Hi everyone,

We've two issues here:

- Search engines don't show up when the locale isn't set correctly
- Firefox doesn't launch when used with firejail

We've got fixes for both issues and we're working on sending them ASAP in a new update.

Try this in Preferences -> Miscellaneous -> Extra MPV Options:

Thanks @mygfya. Here's more info and a solution for this: viewtopic.php?f=143&t=331605.

Thanks @leocansan. Your solution isn't 100% complete but the fact that you posted this early helped a huge number of people and it immediately pointed us in the right direction and sped up our analysis of the issue. Many thanks for this. You tackled the main issue by repairing /var/run and making it...

Affected releases: This issue only affects Linux Mint 19 Tara. If you are running any other release (18.x, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20, LMDE) please ignore this topic. Description of the problem: A critical issue was found in yesterday's base-file 19.0.2 update. Due to a build issue the package content is...

Sorry about this 2020.07.17.1 is out to fix it.