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.
Hear me out, why not just use snap?
Cuz the damn PWA and keepass extensions don’t work.
Sorry, but the keepassxc extension works flawlessly.
Because it forces me to have a
snapdirectory in my home dir which I otherwise keep very tidy. At least let me put it in.snapor something like any decent piece of software. The snap developers don’t respect users at all.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.
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?