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

submitted 5 days 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] 93 points 5 days ago (7 children)

They started doing that in a couple of years back. Saw quite a bit of backlash in the Linux news media at the time.

[–] Amaterasu 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Not defending Ubuntu but wasn't this clarified to be Mozilla's deploying it via Snap and requesting to remove the apt installation?

Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04

[–] ggppjj 6 points 5 days ago

It was a collaboration, although I'm having trouble finding a source for who wanted it first.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/feature-freeze-exception-seeding-the-official-firefox-snap-in-ubuntu-desktop/24210

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