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Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package.

I am having to remove the meta package, then re-uninstall the snap firefox, then re-uninstall Snap, then install pin the latest build I could get (firefox_116.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1_arm64.deb) to keep the native firefox build.

I'm so done with Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven't had any problems with using Snap. I am currently switching from Chrome to Firefox. Firefox has ran great with Snaps so far.

But I also have an Nvidia RTX 3080. The Linux community hates both Snap and Nvidia. But they are working fine for me.

I tried PopOS but they didn't have the current drivers for my Nvidia card, so I switched back to Ubuntu. This was about a year or so ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm on ARM, arm64 to be more specific. There's no native Widevine package for the browsers. There is a way to rip it from the new chromeOS for arm64, and to then plug it into chromium and firefox... but not with snap firefox. And to top it off, flatpak doesn't even have firefox or thunderbird for arm64.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The NVIDIA driver in Pop!_OS is currently 535.98. I've been using a RTX 3080 with Pop!_OS since the pandemic lockdown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am at work and can't check the driver version but they sound like the current one.

How is Steam's new big picture mode running for you under Pop!OS? I used to run Wayland with Steam's old big picture mode but had to go back to x because it wouldn't work.