Sunday, November 16, 2025

Debian 13.2 and a Return to Firefox ESR

Just a little over 2 months since the Debian team released the 13.1 point release for Trixie, the 13.2 point release was released yesterday on November 15, 2025.

I upgraded through terminal (apt update && apt upgrade) when I saw it announced on the Debian subreddit and it went all smooth with no issues and my system continues to run like nothing happened.

It was a nice list of bugfixes and security updates:

https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20251115

With my system updated to 13.2, I decided to reinstall Firefox ESR. I had purged it and installed Brave, but Chromium *still* has an issue that breaks screen sleep. I keep my laptop on 24/7, but I have the screen set to turn off after 5 minutes. Having Brave open, even just sitting on the start page, will break GNOME power management settings and override my 5 minutes screen turn off and keep the screen on. Power management works as normal when Brave is not open.

With that said I kinda got annoyed by this and, while keeping Brave installed for other things, I decided to just reinstall Firefox ESR and use that.

So far things have been working as intended and my power management settings aren't broken with Firefox open (having a Twitch stream running in focus will of course not allow sleep but that is for all browsers).  

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