Not to mention:

• better isolation between apps, no dependency conflicts
• ability to rollback to previous versions
• easily set environment variables and other launch options persistently
• transactional updates so if something weird happens during an update, the flatpak won’t be left in a corrupted state

This was an official Flatpak from Tor Browser, so there’s no reason why it should be less reliable than the packages from distribution maintainers. Not to mention for atomic distros, flatpaks are the official way to install software.

You can check the Tor Project blog to figure out the latest release, and go to your Tor Browser’s menu > Help > About Tor Browser to see if it matches. It should be version 14.0.7. If it is not, the fix is detailed in the Github issue I linked in the post

This seems like something that Flatpak should be able to handle though. Afaik Mullvad Browser never had this issue. Flatpaks also have numerous advantages, like automatically handling desktop shortcuts.

I hope so, Flatpaks are becoming the default way of installing packages, especially with the rise of atomic distros.

Done, reposted to [email protected] and [email protected]. Though maybe [email protected] was unnecessary because this post is already on the lemmy.ml instance…