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.

  • Morphit @feddit.uk
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    7 hours ago

    So both commands do the same thing… right? I’m not saying snap and apt are the same in general.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah for sure, I read your comment as excusing canonical screwing with user intent but I see that’s not what you meant.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah, I really dislike snap and have puppet clean it out and add in the real mozilla repo for me. If I wanted sandboxed apps I’d probably look at flatpak but I think there’s still work to be done there also.