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
    14·
    20 hours 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
      10·
      20 hours ago

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

      • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
        4·
        19 hours 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·
          17 hours 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.