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The correct way to install Firefox
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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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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.
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/.bruh, even in flatpak it works fine
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...
Yep. I removed the snap and installed it from tarball. Automatic updates don't work quite right so I just wrote a bash script that runs the update process for me.
Automatic updates work fine for me with tar install, using kubuntu 22.
The worse thing is that is not even available as a .deb anymore (or is pretty well hidden).
You can download a .tar.bz2 from Mozilla's webpage, which you can unpack and then just launch the
firefoxbinary 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.
If you are willing to download a .tar.bz2 from Mozilla, you can also download the .deb file from the Debian repos
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.
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.
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
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.
Canonical believes in Snap supremacy.