21.10 - Firefox as snap?

[claydoh]

No thank you. Glad that you can just download it from the site and run it from an unpacked folder if needs be.

What is the real difference, really, in real life?

tbh (without presenting an opinion + or -) despite all the supposed (and potential) downsides, things like Chromium and FF, already essentially self-contained (ie no DE-specific libraries needed), are good use cases for containerization. Browsers are also good candidates for sandboxing.



Y'all are slacking, i expected this topic to show up here yesterday


Now, waiting for the dooom-and-gloom ............

[Bings]

No thank you. Glad that you can just download it from the site and run it from an unpacked folder if needs be.

[chimak111]

Ubuntu plans to make the Firefox Snap the default version for new installations of Ubuntu 21.10.

"Per Canonical's distribution agreement with Mozilla, we're making the snap the default installation of firefox on desktop ISOs starting with Ubuntu 21.10."

For now, Ubuntu flavours are not affected by this switch, nor downstream distros like Linux Mint who rely on the repo version. The Firefox deb package will remain available in the repo until the transition takes effect.