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.

  • 2xsaikoEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    If it works for you, fine. I still have this bug to deal with which makes snaps completely unusable in our environment.

    Maybe I should try petitioning for us to at least use Linux Mint.

    • Barbossa404@feddit.de
      6·
      1 year ago

      Same for our student PCs - As soon as the setup includes network homes snap becomes completely unusable. Applications just crash on startup because snap doesn’t allow them to access the user’s home directory

      • 2xsaikoEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yup, also student PCs with home on network share here (:

        But always remember, “Snap is production ready and enterprise grade” or whatever