You mean Firefox ESR? Yes they do have Firefox ESR that you can download and install from the Firefox website. If you don't want the version that's in your package manager.

Yes I noticed this when I tried out the live CD version of Xfce in Debian. It doesn't have this feature. Though when I used Linux Mint Xfce it did. So I think Linux Mint added it to Thunar as a custom command. Because "open as root" is in Thunar in Linux Mint Xfce but not on Debian. From what I read on the forums I think you have to add it as a script or custom command. On the desktops I use which are Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate and KDE. You can just install Nautilus Admin or Caja Admin if you are running Caja which solves the problem. Dolphin also has an extension you can add to open your files as root. In Nemo it's already installed as part of the file manager. But not on Thunar which is one thing that will put me off of using Xfce. Even though Linux Mint already has this on their Xfce version. Even PCManFM although it doesn't have this option either. You can still open the file manager as root by typing in sudo -i in the terminal. Then PCManFM will open as root. I don't know if you can do this with Thunar. If you can't another alternative is to install Nemo which works on most desktops and use that to open files. I know that Peppermint OS which has Xfce also includes Nemo. Which you can set as the default file manager instead of Thunar. That is the workaround if you cannot open Thunar as root. I did like Linux Mint Xfce as it has a lot of options not seen in other Xfce desktops. But I am not sure I would like it on Debian or even Ubuntu as their version is different to that on Linux Mint.

@@AndreaBorman Thanks for the reply! I used to use gksudo, now we have pkexec too. But I ended up getting used to using programs like cp and mv in the terminal, as well as nano or vim.

@@chmod_444 With PCManFM you type sudo -i pcmamfm to open it. You could try that with Thunar replacing the PCmanFM with Thunar after the sudo -i. I don't know if it works or not as I am not using Xfce but you can try. Gksudo is no longer supported. Debian and Ubuntu have removed it. I think there are other commands that work instead and do the same thing.

@@AndreaBorman 'sudo -i thunar' also works.

@@chmod_444 That good to hear that it works on Thunar. There is a way to ad it to Thunar but it's complicated. I think they should just provide a plug in the same as what the other file managers have. I did read the Xfce wiki which is here: docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/custom-actions#open_thunar_as_root_here

No Firefox is not "becoming big brother surveillance" idk where you got that. plus Brave mobile in my own experience sucks. Firefox with extensions gave me the best mobile browser experience.

@@local_communist They are heavily investing into advertisement capabilities as part of their new roadmap. Also Firefox is slowly becoming more and more hard to harden. Not as bad yet, but I am worried. And remember that their main sponsor is Google.

I like Brave, but believing that it respects users' privacy doesn't make sense. That's just marketing! It's a good browser with a built-in adblock, that's all.

@@local_communist "Firefox enables advertisers to track ad performance by default" by AdGuard

@@local_communist cannot run firefox for long on my linux 8GB ram laptop before it consume all the memory. Most firefox add-on now require you to accept access to your web data now, etc... Yes firefox is now part of the nwo agenda (surveillance)

So do I. I also use Google Chrome but for some strange reason it won't install on Debian Sid. So I am using Chromium instead which is the same as Google Chrome. The only disadvantage is that there is no download for it on the web. You can only get it from your Linux operating systems package manager or software center. Because the one download Chromium does provide is the nightly version which is not stable at all. So not recommended for everyday use. Still Debian does update Chromium regular along with the other updates so I don't mind. They also do the Deb version but Ubuntu doesn't. Ubuntu only has the Snap version of Chromium. So if I was on Ubuntu I would use Google Chrome.

Yes that is also an option. I have tried that and you do also get all of the other versions of Firefox such as ESR and Firefox Beta direct from Mozilla. Not sure if it would conflict with the Debian versions that are already in Synaptic or not though. I also use Waterfox which I have installed in the same way. I don't think Waterfox has any repositories now. Although it used to have.

I have tested Zen out. It's based on Firefox but has the toolbar at the side instead of at the top. It works on Debian and can be installed the same way as Firefox or as an Appimage.

Yes I have tried Brave. It's a very good browser and a good alternative to Google Chrome. I am having problems installing Google Chrome on Debian Sid which is what I am using. Brave on the other hand installs fine though I am using Chromium at the moment. Chromium and Google Chrome are almost identical. So having Chromium makes up for the loss of not being able to have Google Chrome.