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Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox? (lemm.ee)

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

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After creating a fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04, I installed DEB Firefox from APT by following Mozilla's instructions from here. But I noticed that it was secretly replaced with Snap Firefox. I was able to verify this by checking the About Firefox page. This is the third time I noticed this.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah they've been doing that for a while

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I battled that for about a year and then ditched Debian based diatros altogether.

OpenSUSE ftw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

You could have gone pure Debian. There are no snap shenanigans over there :)

OpenSuse is also a great pick tho!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I suggest Mint or straight Debian. I prefer Mint for anything graphical, Debian for headless

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What benifit does Mint have over Debian for anything graphical?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

I've just found it's more polished right out of the box. Definitely more new-user-friendly, like Ubuntu, but with Snap gutted out.

I have been using the regular Mint (based on Ubuntu), but I'm probably going to use the Debian edition next time I install a new system

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

Welcome to 2020, where Debian is once again your trusted distro.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

I've had it happen too. In fact it is what prompted me to move away from Kubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not a secret, but annoying as hell. I usually replace it with a Flatpak and uninstall Snap.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. They also did this with Docker, and it broke my setup (and was a bitch to debug).

This was a couple of years ago, and I haven't used Ubuntu unless absolutely necessary (and then usually in a container).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Docker in a snap is too meta for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Just wait for snap 2.0 which actually runs everything inside docker containers /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Is KDE Neon still broken? For awhile it was the only Ubuntu based distro I'd recommend. Yes, I know about Mint but no HDR or Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

I'm reasonably happy with XFCE/Xubuntu - it's not as slick of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, and in some ways that's a great thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

My work cannot manage permissions well so I cannot remove snap Firefox cos its in use by another user.

Meanwhile current snap version of Firefox is crashing on my profile

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