• kaitco@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I honestly don’t understand why it’s a snap by default now. I’ve never got it to really function the way I want as a snap. Puts a sour taste in my mouth for Ubuntu altogether.

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          1 year ago

          The worse thing is that is not even available as a .deb anymore (or is pretty well hidden).

          • Knusper@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            You can download a .tar.bz2 from Mozilla’s webpage, which you can unpack and then just launch the firefox binary inside it.

            But yeah, if you want proper integration into the desktop environment, it takes some manual steps, which a .deb would do for you.

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                1 year ago

                Yeah, sure. I still like to share this factoid, because not many people seem to be aware and it is pretty useful, if e.g. you want to quickly test Firefox Nightly or the new Thunderbird or whatever.

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          1 year ago

          Especially since snaps cause tons of problems, for some reason. I actually switched to Debian a while ago because the snap Firefox kept randomly forgetting history items, cookies, settings, etc.

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            1 year ago

            Actually the non GUI Snaps are good. I still prefer not to use snaps but they are well done. It’s just the software for the average user that starts to suck on Ubuntu. Their focus silently shifted to cloud and server, not desktop. And it shows

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              1 year ago

              But why release it then? And with Firefox? I mean, if some weird niche application threw some errors under certain circumstances, fine, you can’t test everything. But Firefox? I mean, OSes are just browser-enablers these days and if Ubuntu sucks at this very basic thing, it’s garbage.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, as far as I can tell, when you right-click on an image and select “Save As…”, that’s just flat out broken on Ubuntu 22.04, due to it being shipped as a Snap.

          And the Download-folder it uses, is in some random, deeply nested sub-directory of ~/snap/.

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              1 year ago

              Yeah, Firefox even integrated this whole “desktop portal” concept, specifically for the file dialogs within containerized package formats.
              No idea, why Canonical and/or Mozilla don’t have that working for Snaps…