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.

  • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
    11·
    2 years ago

    That is not the same thing as “snap and apt Firefox are the same”. They just hijacked apt to force snap in.

    • Morphit @feddit.uk
      3·
      2 years ago

      So both commands do the same thing… right? I’m not saying snap and apt are the same in general.

      • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah for sure, I read your comment as excusing canonical screwing with user intent but I see that’s not what you meant.

        • Morphit @feddit.uk
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, I really dislike snap and have puppet clean it out and add in the real mozilla repo for me. If I wanted sandboxed apps I’d probably look at flatpak but I think there’s still work to be done there also.

    • Baaahb@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      You are missing the attribution. The person you are replying to is making a joke that Canonical says they are the same, not that they are actually the same.