Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

Yup. They also did this with Docker, and it broke my setup (and was a bitch to debug).

This was a couple of years ago, and I haven't used Ubuntu unless absolutely necessary (and then usually in a container).

[quazatron@lemmy.world]

Not a secret, but annoying as hell. I usually replace it with a Flatpak and uninstall Snap.

[mangocats@feddit.it]

Agreed, not a secret, and not wanted. I uninstall Firefox and install Google Chrome from a .deb - disadvantage: you have to update it manually. Advantage: it doesn't update itself automatically.

[mangocats@feddit.it]

Docker in a snap is too meta for me.

[mangocats@feddit.it]

I'm reasonably happy with XFCE/Xubuntu - it's not as slick of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, and in some ways that's a great thing.

[antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl]

Disadvantage: you're now using a browser from the biggest spy ad-ware company and killed web heterogeneity.

Try: Firefox from Mozilla-Team PPA

[mangocats@feddit.it]

Too late, they own my soul already. I have successfully resisted Meta, X, Microsoft, and any number of lesser daemons, but the one true G has shown me their light and I am unable to look away.

[isokiero@sopuli.xyz]

True, but more often than not mozilla should have newer packages on their repository than any distribution. And the main problem still is that Ubuntu changed apt and threw snap in to the mix where it doesn't belong.

[antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl]

Try sunglasses? But maybe other sould can still be saved from evil..

[bluescreenofdeath@lemmy.world]

I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said?

I'm saying that just adding Mozilla's PPA to your sources won't change apt's behavior when installing Firefox unless you tell apt to prefer the package offered by the Mozilla PPA.

As someone who uses Kubuntu as a daily driver, I'm well aware of the snap drama and have worked around it using the method I pasted above.

Even though it's an underhanded move by Cannonical, I'm still glad the OS is open source since it makes the workaround so trivial.

[mangocats@feddit.it]

They delivered their promise: they were at least not evil, at first.

[brianary@startrek.website]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/

[limelight79@lemm.ee]

I've had it happen too. In fact it is what prompted me to move away from Kubuntu.

[friend_of_satan@lemmy.world]

Welcome to 2020, where Debian is once again your trusted distro.