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

submitted 10 months 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] -2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Hear me out, why not just use snap?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

First, it's a version behind, prompting Firefox to ask me to erase my existing profile. That's not going to do. Second, it's not able to have Widevine added to it, which is needed for video / screen sharing in Teams web client.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Because it forces me to have a snap directory in my home dir which I otherwise keep very tidy. At least let me put it in .snap or something like any decent piece of software. The snap developers don't respect users at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cuz the damn PWA and keepass extensions don't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry, but the keepassxc extension works flawlessly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've used it a few years ago, it might have gotten better but when I was trying to use it it was annoying as fuck, cross-application links that you would expect to open the browser or whatever other app just didn't seem to work right and that was kind of a big deal for me since I use Slack a lot.

Also I'd imagine your disk usage would go through the roof with it.

I just don't see the point in it tbh, what was wrong with Linux package management as it is?