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Re: Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu

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Post by OscarCunningham »

rohanrd-xyz wrote: post #7
nicolaslem wrote: post #4

For me the best way to run Firefox on Debian based system is to download the compiled tar and extract it somewhere in my home dir. This way I get update through Firefox itself (like on Windows/MacOS).

Yeah it can. The only problem is my home directory is not on SSD and it takes long time to load Firefox from regular HDD.

I believe the 'proper' place to install it would be /opt. You can then give yourself edit permissions for the firefox directory so that firefox is capable of upgrading itself when you run it.

Re: Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu

#15

Post by smackeyacky »

jeffparsons wrote: post #13

I've been hearing good things about modern Fedora as an alternative "boring" operating system. Maybe now is the time to make the switch.

More obvious choice for an Ubuntu user would be Debian or another direct debian derivative wouldn't it?

Re: Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu

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Post by approxim8ion »

jeffparsons wrote: post #13

I've been hearing good things about modern Fedora as an alternative "boring" operating system. Maybe now is the time to make the switch.

Fedora is really great, but it is a bit bleeding edge in that there are lots of updates all the time. I have found Arch with an LTS kernel (I use older hardware) to be about similar in terms of stability.

Re: Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu

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Post by spaniard89277 »

ale42 wrote: post #9

... on our systems we removed snapd on purpose, because we only have problems with it (we have NFS-mounted homes, and many snap packages don't work in this configuration)... now Firefox on snap doesn't sound good for us.

Snap gives all kind of headaches. I remember trying VSCode and I had problems working with files normally. I asked for help and I got quite a bit of backlash because I didn't wan't to deal with another layer of configuring a system just to access to my local files, and even after that you won't get the same experience.

But apparently I'm some bastard n00b that does not care about security enough! Can you imagine trying to access your files from your editor like you've been doing for decades? This guy doesn't get it!

Apparently flatpak et al have the same problems.

In my case, I'm not sure where to switch. I want easy of use, I don't really enjoy meddling with the OS. I use Xubuntu because it works better out of the box for me, but if I have to deal with this, I'm not interested.

Re: Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu

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Post by dhimes »

OscarCunningham wrote: post #11
rohanrd-xyz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it can. The only problem is my home directory is not on SSD and it takes long time to load Firefox from regular HDD.

I believe the 'proper' place to install it would be /opt. You can then give yourself edit permissions for the firefox directory so that firefox is capable of upgrading itself when you run it.

Yep- this. And put a symlink to it. Then you can quickly switch versions to nightly or whatever you need.

Re: Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu

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Post by richardfey »

smackeyacky wrote: post #15
jeffparsons wrote: post #13

I've been hearing good things about modern Fedora as an alternative "boring" operating system. Maybe now is the time to make the switch.

More obvious choice for an Ubuntu user would be Debian or another direct debian derivative wouldn't it?

I would go for Debian or Gentoo.

Or use official PPAs for all the snaps that Canonical is forcing on users.

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